The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.