"To be is to be perceived." |
"I may well presume, most Holy Father, that certain people, as soon as they hear that in this book I ascribe movement to the earthly globe, will cry out that, holding such views, I should at once be hissed off the stage..." |
"I think; therefore I am." | |||
"For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception." |
"It is we ... who carry into the phenomena which we call nature, order and regularity, nay, we should never find them in nature if we ... had not originally placed them there." | ||||
"We have said that the concept of an individual substance includes once for all everything which can ever happen to it..." |
"Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas: How comes it to be furnished? To this I answer, in one word, ... from EXPERIENCE." |
"By God I understand ... substance consisting of infinite attributes, each one of which expresses eternal and infinite essence." | |||
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