Nature Does Not Make Leaps.

Of What Use Would It Be To You, Sir, To Become King Of China On Condition That You Forgot What You Have Been? Would It Not Be The Same As If God, At The Same Time He Destroyed You, Created A King In China?

I Do Not Conceive Of Any Reality At All As Without Genuine Unity.

If You Have A Clear Idea Of A Soul, You Will Have A Clear Idea Of A Form; For It Is Of The Same Genus, Though A Different Species.

Our Reasonings Are Grounded Upon Two Great Principles, That Of Contradiction, In Virtue Of Which We Judge False That Which Involves A Contradiction, And True That Which Is Opposed Or Contradictory To The False.

I Hold That It Is Only When We Can Prove Everything We Assert That We Understand Perfectly The Thing Under Consideration.