13th-century Philosopher Quotes

Thomas Aquinas

Ramon Llull

William of Ockham

Roger Bacon

Bonaventure

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

Mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to other sciences.

Beloved, I sought you
here and there,
asked for news of you
from all I met;
then saw you through myself
and found we were identical.
Now I blush to think I ever
searched for signs of you.

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

William of Ockham

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

If all men by nature desire to know, then they desire most of all the greatest knowledge of science.

An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.