It Is Contrary To Reasoning To Say

Before Examining This More Carefully And Investigating Its Consequences, I Want To Dwell For A Moment In The Contemplation Of God, To Ponder His Attributes In Me, To See, Admire, And Adore The Beauty Of His Boundless Light, Insofar As My Clouded Insight Allows. Believing That The Supreme Happiness Of The Other Life Consists Wholly Of The Contemplation Of Divine Greatness, I Now Find That Through Less Perfect Contemplation Of The Same Sort I Can Gain The Greatest Joy Available In This Life.

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.

There Is Nothing More Ancient Than The Truth.

The Reading Of All Good Books Is Indeed Like A Conversation With The Noblest Men Of Past Centuries Who Were The Authors Of Them, Nay A Carefully Studied Conversation, In Which They Reveal To Us None But The Best Of Their Thoughts.

And Thereby Make Ourselves, As It Were, The Lords And Masters Of Nature.