I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight