Quote#Truth
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind…
Quote byRalph Cudworth · 1617–1688
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 5, sct. 7.
English (original)
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.
— Ralph Cudworth
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