If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.