Ralph Cudworth Quotes
Ralph Cudworth was an English philosopher, theologian, and the leading figure of the Cambridge Platonist school. As Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge, he produced The True Intellectual System of the Universe, a vast defense of theism, the immateriality of the soul, and the eternal and immutable nature of right and wrong against what he took to be the materialism and ethical relativism of Hobbes and his followers. The quotes below are attributed to Ralph Cudworth, organized by topic.
Ralph Cudworth on God
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Attributed to Ralph Cudworth:
“Without God, the moral order is unintelligible.”
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Attributed to Ralph Cudworth:
“The wise see God in everything; the foolish see nothing of him at all.”
Ralph Cudworth on Mind
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Attributed to Ralph Cudworth:
“Mind is older than matter.”
Ralph Cudworth on Virtue
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Attributed to Ralph Cudworth:
“Things are good or evil by their nature, and not by mere will.”
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Attributed to Ralph Cudworth:
“Right and wrong are not the products of will, but the eternal and immutable nature of things.”