Ralph Cudworth: Quotes about knowledge

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

Ralph Cudworth: 10 quotes0 likes

“If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.”

Source: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 1, sct. 3

“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.”

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

“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.”

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