But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

What is is what must be.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.