Jeremy Taylor Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Art, Atheist, Philosophy

• A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mother, Sweet, Self

• In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Wise, Men, Design

  Jeremy Taylor (1660). “Ductor Dubitantium, Or, The Rule of Conscience in All Her Generall Measures: Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience : In Four Books”, p.34

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