Ralph J. Cudworth

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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 J. Cudworth (1617–1688)

    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 J. Cudworth (1617–1688)