God Is The Universal Substance

Of The Eternal Incorporeal Substance Nothing Is Changed, Is Formed Or Deformed, But There Always Remains Only That Thing Which Cannot Be A Subject Of Dissolution, Since It Is Not Possible That It Be A Subject Of Composition, And Therefore, Either Of Itself Or By Accident, It Cannot Be Said To Die.

What Can Be More Stupid Than To Be In Pain About Future Things And Absent Ones Which At Present Are Not Felt?

Desire Urges Me On, While Fear Bridals Me.

It Is Proof Of A Base And Low Mind For One To Wish To Think With The Masses Or Majority, Merely Because The Majority Is The Majority. Truth Does Not Change Because It Is, Or Is Not, Believed By A Majority Of The People.

My Son, I Do Not Say These Are Foals And Those Asses, These Little Monkeys And Those Great Baboons, As You Would Have Me Do. As I Told You From The First, I Regard Them As Earth's Heroes. But I Do Not Wish To Believe Them Without Cause, Nor To Accept Those Propositions Whose Antitheses (as You Must Have Understood If You Are Not Both Blind And Deaf) Are So Compellingly True.