Ralph Cudworth - The true intellectual system of the universe (1678)

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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Ralph Cudworth
Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

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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.

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The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

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Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced -- and which therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something... whose existence must needs be necessary.... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other things that are made.

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Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.

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