Ralph Cudworth: Mind

Ralph Cudworth was English philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on mind.

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“The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father."”

Ralph Cudworth

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 16.

God , Feeling , Soul , Heart

“The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.”

Ralph Cudworth

Source: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 5, sct. 7

Intelligence , Knowledge , Science

“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”

Ralph Cudworth

Source: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 1, sct. 1

Knowledge , Passion