Ralph Cudworth Quotes
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.
Cudworth, Ralph. A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality. London: James and John Knapton, 1731.
Harding was not the brightest bulb on the political scene but was a very affable and personable man.
Referring to Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
He meant to say “repository” and not “suppository”. The latter is a capsule of medicine that is placed inside the rectum.
Ralph Cudworth FRS was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian Hebraist, classicist, theologian and philosopher, and a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists who became 11th Regius Professor of Hebrew (1645–88), 26th Master of Clare Hall (1645–54), and 14th Master of Christ's College (1654–88). A leading opponent of Hobbes's political and philosophical views, his magnum opus was his The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678).
