"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"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…"

"I call a thing free which exists and acts by the sole necessity of its own nature; and I call that compelled which is determined by something else to exist and act in a fixed and determinate manner."

"The more knowledge we have of things, the more complete and perfect is our knowledge of God."

"Nothing comes into being out of nothing."