The Present Is Saturated With The Past

Philosophy Consists Mostly Of Kicking Up A Lot Of Dust And Then Complaining That You Can't See Anything.

It Has Long Seemed Ridiculous To Me To Suppose That The Nature Of Things Has Been So Poor And Stingy That It Provided Souls Only To Such A Trifling Mass Of Bodies On Our Globe, Like Human Bodies, When It Could Have Given Them To All, Without Interfering With Its Other Ends.

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?

...a Distinction Must Be Made Between True And False Ideas, And That Too Much Rein Must Not Be Given To A Man's Imagination Under Pretext Of Its Being A Clear And Distinct Intellection.

Nothing Is Necessitated Whose Opposite Is Possible.