The World Is Not A Machine. Everything

...a Distinction Must Be Made Between True And False Ideas, And That Too Much Rein Must Not Be Given To A Man's Imagination Under Pretext Of Its Being A Clear And Distinct Intellection.

He Who Hasn't Tasted Bitter Things Hasn't Earned Sweet Things.

Nothing Is More Important Than To See The Sources Of Invention Which Are, In My Opinion More Interesting Than The Inventions Themselves.

Every Substance Is As A World Apart, Independent Of Everything Else Except God.

Although The Whole Of This Life Were Said To Be Nothing But A Dream And The Physical World Nothing But A Phantasm, I Should Call This Dream Or Phantasm Real Enough, If, Using Reason Well, We Were Never Deceived By It.