Gabriel Biel Quotes on Knowledge
Gabriel Biel (c. 1420–1495), the "last of the schoolmen," was the principal late-medieval nominalist of the via moderna. His Collectorium circa quattuor libros Sententiarum systematizes the Ockhamist epistemology — the priority of intuitive over abstractive cognition, the rejection of universals as anything more than mental signs, the doctrine that God could supply the cognitive content of an intuitive cognition without the corresponding object. The framework was the immediate philosophical context of the young Luther's theological education at Erfurt.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gabriel Biel:
“Universals are names for like particulars, not things in themselves.”
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“Passionis prælo in torculari.”
To be crushed in the winepress of passion. | Lectio 52 -
“To be crushed in the winepress of passion.”
Passionis prælo in torculari. -
“Semper in his magis cupiens doceri, quam docere.”
Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach. | Lectio 53 -
“Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.”
Semper in his magis cupiens doceri, quam docere. -
“Non omne, quod fulget, est aurum.”
All that glitters is not gold. | Lectio 77 -
“All that glitters is not gold.”
Non omne, quod fulget, est aurum. -
“Nemo uincit, qui non pugnat.”
No one conquers who doesn't fight. | Lectio 78 -
“No one conquers who doesn't fight.”
Nemo uincit, qui non pugnat. -
“Pro tali numismate tales merces.”
You get what you pay for. | Lectio 86 -
“You get what you pay for.”
Pro tali numismate tales merces.