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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.

— Ralph Cudworth Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)

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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)

If this be not atheism, to acknowledge no other deity besides dead and senseless matter, then the word hath no signification.

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or not.

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)

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