“The mind itself, its love [of itself] and its knowledge [of itself] are a kind of trinity.”

— Aurelius Augustinus , On the Trinity

(Cambridge: 2002), Book 9, Chapter 4, Section 4, p. 27
On the Trinity (417)

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Aurelius Augustinus 183

early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430

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PART I, SECTION II.
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“I say that it is possible to have some knowledge without the help of the senses. For in the Divine Mind all knowledge exists from eternity, and not only is there in it certain knowledge of universals but also of all singulars. …Similarly, intelligence receiving irradiation from the primary light see all knowable things, both universal and singulars, in the primary light itself. Moreover, the Divine Mind, in the reflection of its intelligence upon Itself, knows the very things which come after Itself, because it is itself their cause. Therefore, those who are without any senses have true knowledge.”

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“The will is not fundamentally right, as the practical ones would like very much to assure us; one may not pass over the desire for knowledge in order to stand immediately in the will, but knowledge perfects itself to will when it desensualizes itself and creates itself as a spirit "which builds its own body."”

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Source: The False Principle of our Education (1842), p. 21

“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.”

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The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
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“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”

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