Joseph Albo Quotes on Knowledge
Joseph Albo (c. 1380 – 1444), the Spanish-Jewish philosopher whose Sefer ha-Ikkarim (Book of Principles, 1425) was completed in the wake of the Tortosa disputation, gave the late-medieval Iberian tradition its most influential reduction of Jewish doctrine to a small set of root principles. Albo identified three: the existence of God, divine revelation, and divine reward and punishment — refining and simplifying the thirteen of Maimonides under the philosophical pressure of the Christian apologetic context. The framework grounds religious knowledge in the rational acknowledgement of these principles and the consequent obligations they entail.
Quotes
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Attributed to Joseph Albo:
“True religion combines reason and tradition.”
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Attributed to Joseph Albo:
“Faith requires inquiry, not blind assent.”
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Attributed to Joseph Albo:
“The wise believer holds reason and revelation together.”
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“Quote c. 1949, when Albers started his 'Homage to the Square' series of paintings”
Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another. -
“I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.”
Quote from: 'Albers Paints a Picture' Elaine de Kooning , Art News 49, November 1950, p. 57; as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America , W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 67 -
“In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.”
Quoted in: Faber Birren (1976) Color Perception in Art. p. 20