But Possibly I Am Something More Than

The Entire Method Consists In The Order And Arrangement Of The Things To Which The Mind's Eye Must Turn So That We Can Discover Some Truth.

Just As We Believe By Faith That The Greatest Happiness Of The Next Life Consists Simply In The Contemplation Of This Divine Majesty, Likewise We Experience That We Derive The Greatest Joy Of Which We Are Capable In This Life From The Same Contemplation, Even Though It Is Much Less Perfect.

This Result Could Have Been Achieved Either By His [god] Endowing My Intellect With A Clear And Distinct Perception Of Everything About Which I Would Ever Deliberate, Or Simply By Impressing The Following Rule So Firmly Upon My Memory That I Could Never Forget It: I Should Never Judge Anything That I Do Not Clearly And Distinctly Understand.

The Greatest Minds, As They Are Capable Of The Highest Excellencies, Are Open Likewise To The Greatest Aberrations; And Those Who Travel Very Slowly May Yet Make Far Greater Progress, Provided They Keep Always To The Straight Road, Than Those Who, While They Run, Forsake It.

Conquer Yourself Rather Than The World.