Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
