Quote#Nature
Particulars are frequently fallible, but universals never. Occult…
Quote byRobert Fludd · 1574–1637
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Robert Fludd, cited in: (1887). The Real History of the Rosicrucians Founded on Their Own Manifestoes. p. 290.
English (original)
Particulars are frequently fallible, but universals never. Occult philosophy lays bare Nature in her complete nakedness, and alone contemplates the wisdom of universals by the eyes of intelligence. Accustomed to partake of the rivers which flow from the Fountain of Life, it is unacquainted with grossness and with clouded waters.
— Robert Fludd
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