Ralph Cudworth Quotes

#1. True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Ralph Cudworth

#2. The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations.

Andy Weir

#3. 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.

Ralph Cudworth

#4. Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Ralph Cudworth

#5. 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.

Ralph Cudworth

#6. I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.

Andrew Dice Clay

#7. Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Ralph Cudworth

#8. Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.

Ralph Cudworth

#9. I could at times be overly emotional, but was lucky to have the kind of orderly mind that is good at categorizing things

Julia Child

#10. Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.

Eugene Ormandy

#11. Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Ralph Cudworth

#12. 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.

Ralph Cudworth

#13. Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph Cudworth

#14. I am the master of my mind and fate.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

Ralph Cudworth

#16. In that silence, I dream to be.

Khadija Rupa

#17. Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. 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.

Ralph Cudworth

#19. Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

Megan Hilty

#20. We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

Ralph Cudworth

#21. It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

Thomas Carlyle

#22. Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.

Ralph Cudworth

#23. I hate to agree with Thorne," said Cinder, "I mean, I really hate to agree with him, but

Marissa Meyer

#24. Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

Ralph Cudworth

#25. I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

Jim Gaffigan