"Nowledge is not a passion from without the……" — Ralph Cudworth
"Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within."
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Ralph Cudworth
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10 Quotes by Ralph Cudworth
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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides…
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a…
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation…
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Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their…
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Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once…
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Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they…
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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no…
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Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.
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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power…
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