A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.