Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long standing, namely that there exists a God who is able to do anything and by whom I, such as I am, have been created. How do I know that he did not bring it about that there is no earth at all, no heavens, no extended thing, no shape, no size, no place, and yet bringing it about that all these things appear to me to exist precisely as they do now?

There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen