Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworthwas an English classicist, theologian and philosopher, a leading figure among the Cambridge Platonists. From a family background embedded in the early nonconformist environment of Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge, where he studied, he became Regius Professor of Hebrew 1645-88, Master of Clare Hall 1645-54 and Master of Christ's College 1654-88. His great work, entitled The True Intellectual System of the Universe, was published in 1678. He was a leading opponent of Thomas Hobbes...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTheologian
thinking reality wish
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.
mind entity true-knowledge
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.
atheist dancing may
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.
world truth-is firm
Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.
powerful two together
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.