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On the whole, a man who denies the existence of the effects arranged according to the causes in the question of arts, or whose wisdom cannot understand it, then he has no knowledge of the art of its Maker.

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The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul (dhihn) constructs in movement.

If teleological study of the world is philosophy, and if the Law commands such a study, then the Law commands philosophy.

FM 44 as cited in: Oliver Leaman (2002)

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

There is no city that is truly one other than this city that we [anahnti] are involved in bringing forth.

Ralph Lerner (1974)

This is one of the most intricate problems of religion.

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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

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