Henry More Quotes

• Virtue is to herself the best reward.

  Henry More

  Rewards, Virtue

  "The Compleat Angler". Book by Izaak Walton, 1653.

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• To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the power or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, justand true; [Enthusiasm is] A Full, but false persuasion in a man that he is inspired.

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  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is so fugitive and unsettled that he will not stand to the verdict of his own Faculties, one can no more fasten any thing upon him, than he can write in the water, or tye knots in the wind.

  Henry More

  Writing, Wind, Perfect

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• Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne, and every phantasm of the soul is the energie of the soul.

  Henry More

  Science, Light, Soul

  Henry More (1642). “GVuhwdia platonica: or, A platonicall song of the soul, consisting of foure severall poems; viz. GVuhozwia, Vuhacanasia, Antivuhopannuhia, Antimonovuhia. Hereto is added a paraphrasticall interpretation of the answer of Apollo consulted by Amelius, about Pltinus soul departed this life. By”, p.210

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