Reason Is Nothing Without Imagination.

These Long Chains Of Perfectly Simple And Easy Reasonings By Means Of Which Geometers Are Accustomed To Carry Out Their Most Difficult Demonstrations Had Led Me To Fancy That Everything That Can Fall Under Human Knowledge Forms A Similar Sequence; And That So Long As We Avoid Accepting As True What Is Not So, And Always Preserve The Right Order Of Deduction Of One Thing From Another, There Can Be Nothing Too Remote To Be Reached In The End, Or To Well Hidden To Be Discovered.

Intuitive Knowledge Is An Illumination Of The Soul, Whereby It Beholds In The Light Of God Those Things Which It Pleases Him To Reveal To Us By A Direct Impression Of Divine Clearness.

Conquer Yourself Rather Than The World.

I Have Concluded The Evident Existence Of God, And That My Existence Depends Entirely On God In All The Moments Of My Life, That I Do Not Think That The Human Spirit May Know Anything With Greater Evidence And Certitude.

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