I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.