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

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.

De omnibus dubitandum

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.