When we want to learn something roughly about a piece of metal, we put it in a crucible in the fire. To say that God cannot make matter think is to say the most insolently absurd thing that anyone has ever dared utter in the privileged schools of lunacy. We have a thousand witnesses to ignorance, and not one that gives a glimmer of probability. We know certainly that we exist, that we feel, that we think. The article SOUL, and all the articles of the nature of metaphysics, must start by a sincere submission to the incontrovertible dogmas of the Church.
Revelation is worth more, without doubt, than the whole of philosophy.
Systems exercise the mind, but faith illumines and guides it. The soul of the bellows has burst. Never does one hear them dispute about this word. Such is not the case with philosophers. We possessed therefore three souls, without having the least notion of any of them.