... probability of things, and to be swayed accordingly; how vain, I say, it is to expect demonstration and certainty in things not capable of it; and refuse assent to very rational propositions, and act contrary to very plain and clear truths, because they cannot be made out so evident, as to surmount every the least (I will not say reason, but) pretence of doubting. He that, in the ordinary affairs of life, would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration, would be sure of nothing in this... - Page 239

... and scruple, but to the preservation of us in whom they are, and accommodated to the use of life: they serve to our purpose well enough if they will but give us certain notice of those things which are convenient or inconvenient to us. - Page 241

Il faut convenir que la Poétique d'Aristote est un excellent Ouvrage: cependant il n'ya rien d'assez parfait pour régler toutes les Nations et tous les Siécles. - Page 69

1 gener umano, da che si ha memoria del mondo, ha vivuto e vive comportevolmente in società, ella determina la gran disputa, della quale i migliori filosofi ei morali teologi ancora contendono con Cameade scettico e con Epicuro (né Grozio 1... - Page 360

C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement; et de là vient qu'il est toujours disposé à nier tout ce qui lui est incompréhensible ; au lieu qu'en effet il ne connaît naturellement que le mensonge ' , et qu'il ne doit prendre pour véritables que les choses dont le contraire lui parait faux. Et c'est pourquoi, toutes les fois qu'une proposition est inconcevable , il faut en suspendre le jugement et ne pas la... - Page 253

... faux. Et c'est pourquoi, toutes les fois qu'une proposition est inconcevable, il faut en suspendre le jugement et ne pas la nier à cette marque, mais en examiner le contraire ; et si on le trouve manifestement faux, on peut hardiment affirmer la première tout incompréhensible qu'elle est. - Page 253

... really exist and hath a being without me. And of this the greatest assurance I can possibly have, and to which my faculties can attain, is the testimony of my eyes, which are the proper and sole judges of this thing; whose testimony I have reason to rely on as so certain that I can no more doubt, whilst I write this, that I see white and black, and that something really exists that causes that sensation in me, than that I write or move my hand; which... - Page 238

Après de longs entretiens , où il me fit voir tout ce que peut inspirer la raison, il se plaignit « que la nature eût donné tant d'étendue à la curiosité, et des bornes si étroites à la... - Page 58

The knowledge of the existence of any other thing, we can have only by sensation : for, there being no necessary connexion of real existence with any idea a man hath in his memory, nor of any other existence but that of God with the existence of any particular man, no particular man can know the existence of any other being, but only when by actual operating upon him it makes itself perceived by him. - Page 239

Vico nelle filosofie, fa qui bisogno ritornare alquanto indietro: che, nel tempo nel quale egli partì da Napoli, si era cominciata a coltivare la filosofia d'Epicuro sopra Pier Gassendi, e due anni doppo ebbe novella che la gioventù a tutta voga si era data a celebrarla; onde in lui si destò voglia d'intenderla sopra Lucrezio. - Page 349