People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. |
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. |
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will |
Plato, to incline to Christianity. |
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools. |
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it |
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it |
Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it |
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. |
Sleep, you say, is the image of death; for my part I say that it is rather the image of life. |
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. |
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. |
Symmetry is what we see at a glance |
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it. |
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. |