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The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that
He might illuminate the world by His wisdom
and excite it to the love of Himself.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.