John of Salisbury Quotes

1120–1180 England

John of Salisbury (or Joannes Saresberiensis) (c. 1120 – October 25 1180) was an English philosopher who wrote on ethics, logic and political theory. He was a student of Peter Abelard and an associate of Thomas Becket.

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Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

Policraticus (1159)

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

Policraticus (1159)

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

Policraticus (1159)

Bernard of Chartres used to say that we were like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and further than they, it is not due to our own clear eyes or tall bodies, but because we are raised on high and upborne by their gigantic bigness.

Metalogicon (1159)

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