God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.