Variant: When It Is Not In Our

Everybody Thinks Himself So Well Supplied With Common Sense That Even Those Most Difficult To Please. . . Never Desire More Of It Than They Already Have.

I Did Not Imitate The Skeptics Who Doubt Only For Doubting's Sake, And Pretend To Be Always Undecided; On The Contrary, My Whole Intention Was To Arrive At A Certainty, And To Dig Away The Drift And The Sand Until I Reached The Rock Or The Clay Beneath.

What Then Is The Source Of My Errors? They Are Owing Simply To The Fact That, Since The Will Extends Further Than The Intellect, I Do Not Contain The Will Within The Same Boundaries; Rather, I Also Extend It To Things I Do Not Understand. Because The Will Is Indifferent In Regard To Such Matters, It Easily Turns Away From The True And The Good; And In This Way I Am Deceived And I Sin.

Each Problem That I Solved Became A Rule, Which Served Afterwards To Solve Other Problems.

The Nature Of Matter, Or Body Considered In General, Consists Not In Its Being Something Which Is Hard Or Heavy Or Coloured, Or Which Affects The Senses In Any Way, But Simply In Its Being Something Which Is Extended In Length, Breadth And Depth.