He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason