Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another

The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.