Quote#Speech
It is an age of intellectual slaveries; If they meet any thing…
Quote byThomas Vaughan · 1621–1666
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Anthroposophia Theomagica (1650).
English (original)
It is an age of intellectual slaveries; If they meet any thing extraordinary, they prune it with distinctions, or daub it with false glosses, til it looks like the traditions of Aristotle. His followers are so confident of his principles they seek not to understand what others speak, but to make others speak what they understand.
— Thomas Vaughan
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