We Must Say That There

It Is Surely Harmful To Souls To Make It A Heresy To Believe What Is Proved.

In The Long Run My Observations Have Convinced Me That Some Men, Reasoning Preposterously, First Establish Some Conclusion In Their Minds Which, Either Because Of Its Being Their Own Or Because Of Their Having Received It From Some Person Who Has Their Entire Confidence, Impresses Them So Deeply That One Finds It Impossible Ever To Get It Out Of Their Heads.

Their Vain Presumption Of Knowing All Can Take Beginning Solely From Their Never Having Known Anything; For If One Has But Once Experienced The Perfect Knowledge Of One Thing, And Truly Tasted What It Is To Know, He Shall Perceive That Of Infinite Other Conclusions He Understands Not So Much As One.

Nonetheless, It Moves.

I Am Certainly Interested In A Tribunal In Which, For Having Used My Reason, I Was Deemed Little Less Than A Heretic. Who Knows But Men Will Reduce Me From The Profession Of A Philosopher To That Of Historian Of The Inquisition!