All things in God are spontaneous.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.