Because Reason...is The Only Thing That Makes

The Principal Effect Of The Passions Is That They Incite And Persuade The Mind To Will The Events For Which They Prepared The Body.

There Is A Difference Between Happiness, The Supreme Good, And The Final End Or Goal Toward Which Our Actions Ought To Tend. For Happiness Is Not The Supreme Good, But Presupposes It, Being The Contentment Or Satisfaction Of The Mind Which Results From Possessing It.

Be That As It May, There Is Fixed In My Mind A Certain Opinion Of Long Standing, Namely That There Exists A God Who Is Able To Do Anything And By Whom I, Such As I Am, Have Been Created. How Do I Know That He Did Not Bring It About That There Is No Earth At All, No Heavens, No Extended Thing, No Shape, No Size, No Place, And Yet Bringing It About That All These Things Appear To Me To Exist Precisely As They Do Now?

It Is Best Not To Go On For Great Quest For Truth , It Will Only Make You Miserable

This Result Could Have Been Achieved Either By His [god] Endowing My Intellect With A Clear And Distinct Perception Of Everything About Which I Would Ever Deliberate, Or Simply By Impressing The Following Rule So Firmly Upon My Memory That I Could Never Forget It: I Should Never Judge Anything That I Do Not Clearly And Distinctly Understand.