Galen - On The natural Faculties

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The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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That which is, grows, while that which is not, becomes.

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Praxiteles and Phidias... were unable to... reach and handle all portions of the material. It is not so, however, with nature. Every part of a bone she makes bone, every part of the flesh she makes flesh, and so with fat and all the rest; there is no part she has not touched, elaborated, and embellished.

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It was, of course, a grand and impressive thing to do, to mistrust the obvious, and to pin one's faith in things which could not be seen!

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The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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