"The intellectual love of God is the very love of God with which God loves himself, not insofar as he is infinite, but insofar as he can be explicated through the human mind's essence, considered under…"

"He who wishes to revenge injuries by retaliating them, will live in a circle of hatred."

"The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things."

"It is impossible for a man to be affected by any emotion unless he imagines something which excludes the existence of an external cause of that emotion."

"The human mind has no free will, but is determined to will this or that by a cause which is also determined by another cause, and this again by another, and so on to infinity."