There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
GALILEO GALILEIThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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See now the power of truth.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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