The Chief Cause Of Human

Intuitive Knowledge Is An Illumination Of The Soul, Whereby It Beholds In The Light Of God Those Things Which It Pleases Him To Reveal To Us By A Direct Impression Of Divine Clearness.

But I Cannot Forget That, At Other Times I Have Been Deceived In Sleep By Similar Illusions; And, Attentively Considering Those Cases, I Perceive So Clearly That There Exist No Certain Marks By Which The State Of Waking Can Ever Be Distinguished From Sleep, That I Feel Greatly Astonished; And In Amazement I Almost Persuade Myself That I Am Now Dreaming.

If ... It Is Not In My Power To Arrive At The Knowledge Of Any Truth, I May At Least Do What Is In My Power, Namely, Suspend Judgement.

Science Is Practical Philosophy.

In Philosophy, When We Make Use Of False Principles, We Depart The Farther From The Knowledge Of Truth And Wisdom Exactly In Proportion To The Care With Which We Cultivate Them, And Apply Ourselves To The Deduction Of Diverse Consequences From Them, Thinking That We Are Philosophizing Well, While We Are Only Departing The Farther From The Truth; From Which It Must Be Inferred That They Who Have Learned The Least Of All That Has Been Hitherto Distinguished By The Name Of Philosophy Are The Most Fitted For The Apprehension Of Truth.