I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to lea…

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

205. If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.

Deconstruction ... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I t…