"Sense is a line, the mind is a……" — Ralph Cudworth
"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."
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Ralph Cudworth
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10 Quotes by Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth has 10 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power…
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect;…
— Annie Besant
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
— Annie Besant
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the…
— Samuel Butler
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When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with…
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we…
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung…
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You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
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