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The Roman jurisconsults established worship of God as the first and foremost part of the natural law of the gentes. For where there is neither rule of law nor force of arms, and men are accordingly in a state of complete freedom, they can neither enter nor remain in society with others except through fear of a force superior to them all, and, therefore, through fear of a divinity common to all. This fear of divinity is called ‘religion’.

A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

Understanding arises through making.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

One truly understands only what one can create.