By Doubting We Are Led To Enquire,

It Is By Doubting That We Come To Investigate, And By Investigating That We Recognize The Truth.

We Call An Intention Good Which Is Right In Itself, But The Action Is Good, Not Because It Contains Within It Some Good, But Because It Issues From A Good Intention.

The First Key To Wisdom Is Assiduous And Frequent Questioning.

I Had Wished To Find In Philosophy And Religion A Remedy For My Disgrace; I Searched Out An Asylum To Secure Me From Love... Duty, Reason And Decency, Which Upon Other Occasions Have Some Power Over Me, Are Here Useless. The Gospel Is A Language I Do Not Understand When It Opposes My Passion... But When Love Has Once Been Sincere How Difficult It Is To Determine To Love No More! 'tis A Thousand Times More Easy To Renounce The World Than Love. I Hate This Deceitful, Faithless World; I Think No More Of It.

I Preferred The Weapons Of Dialectic To All The Other Teachings Of Philosophy, And Armed With These, I Chose The Conflicts Of Disputation Rather Than The Trophies Of War.