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Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
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.
Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
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.
Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)