Attributed to Averroes, in: John Bartlett (1968) Familiar Qutations. p. 155
“Action: the Perfection of Human Life,” Sewanee Review, LVI (Winter, 1948), pp. 3-4.
System of Transcendental Philosophy (1800)
On Translating Homer (1861)
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action
“The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."”
Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
In the 1661 translation by Thomas Salusbury: … such are the pure Mathematical sciences, to wit, Geometry and Arithmetick: in which Divine Wisdom knows infinite more propositions, because it knows them all; but I believe that the knowledge of those few comprehended by humane understanding, equalleth the divine, as to the certainty objectivè, for that it arriveth to comprehend the necessity thereof, than which there can be no greater certainty." p. 92 (from the Archimedes Project http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?page=92;dir=galil_syste_065_en_1661;step=textonly)
In the original Italian: … tali sono le scienze matematiche pure, cioè la geometria e l’aritmetica, delle quali l’intelletto divino ne sa bene infinite proposizioni di piú, perché le sa tutte, ma di quelle poche intese dall’intelletto umano credo che la cognizione agguagli la divina nella certezza obiettiva, poiché arriva a comprenderne la necessità, sopra la quale non par che possa esser sicurezza maggiore." (from the copy at the Italian Wikisource).
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770), Section II On The Distinction Between The Sensible And The Intelligible Generally
The Philosophy of Composition (published 1846).
“Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.”
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), Volume Two
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1816)
Context: A philosophy without heart and a faith without intellect are abstractions from the true life of knowledge and faith. The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
