Michael Knowles

“When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. And thus this benefit renders him pleasing to us, besides that such community of intellect as we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.”
― Anonymous

“There are progressions in which the last step is sui generis —incommensurable with the others —and in which to go the whole way is to undo all the labour of your previous journey. To reduce the Tao to a mere natural product is a step of that kind. Up to that point, the kind of explanation which explains things away may give us something, though at a heavy cost. But you cannot go on explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away.”
― Anonymous

“Through failure to contemplate these Infinites, men have rashly rushed into the examination of nature, as though they bore some proportion to her.”
― Anonymous

“Action, and not knowledge, is man's destiny and duty in this life; and his highest principles, both in philosophy and in religion, have reference to this end.”
― Henry Longueville Mansel