In Order To Improve The Mind, We

For How Do We Know That The Thoughts Which Occur In Dreaming Are False Rather Than Those Others Which We Experience When Awake, Since The Former Are Often Not Less Vivid And Distinct Than The Latter?

Intuition Is The Undoubting Conception Of A Pure And Attentive Mind, Which Arises From The Light Of Reason Alone, And Is More Certain Than Deduction.

Common Sense Is The Most Fairly Distributed Thing In The World, For Each One Thinks He Is So Well-endowed With It That Even Those Who Are Hardest To Satisfy In All Other Matters Are Not In The Habit Of Desiring More Of It Than They Already Have.

The Reading Of All Good Books Is Like A Conversation With The Finest Minds Of Past Centuries.

There Is Nothing So Strange And So Unbelievable That It Has Not Been Said By One Philosopher Or Another.