Knowledge Is Not A Passion From Without

Truth Is The Most Unbending And Uncompliable, The Most Necessary, Firm, Immutable, And Adamantine Thing In The World.

Truth And Love Are Two Of The Most Powerful Things In The World; And When They Both Go Together They Cannot Easily Be Withstood.

Things Are Sullen, And Will Be As They Are, Whatever We Think Them Or Wish Them To Be.

Now All The Knowledge And Wisdom That Is In Creatures, Whether Angels Or Men, Is Nothing Else But A Participation Of That One Eternal, Immutable And Increased Wisdom Of God.

If Intellection And Knowledge Were Mere Passion From Without, Or The Bare Reception Of Extraneous And Adventitious Forms, Then No Reason Could Be Given At All Why A Mirror Or Looking-glass Should Not Understand.