"The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior principle describe it only by outward circumstances, which every child can do, but they state nothing essentially."

“Besides, their Aristotle is a poet in text, his principles are but fancies, and they stand more on our concessions, then his bottom.”

“Their philosophy is like a church, that is all discipline, and no doctrine”

“Notwithstanding I acknowledge the schoolmen ingenious: they conceive their principles irregular, and prescribe rules for method, though they want matter.”

“They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart.”

“Friar Bacon walked in Oxford between two steeples, but he that would have discovered his thoughts, by his steps, had been more his fool than his fellow.”

“Now if I should question any sect (for there is no Communion in Christendom) whither these later intimations drive? They can but return me to the first rudiments, or produce some empty pretense of Spirit.”