The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.
Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
