Quote#Wisdom
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the…
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. 1, sct. 3.
English (original)
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
— Ralph Cudworth
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