Ramon Llull Quotes on Knowledge
Ramon Llull (c. 1232–1316), the Catalan polymath whose long career produced over two hundred works in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic, gave high-medieval philosophy one of its most original methodological instruments in the Ars Magna — a combinatorial system whose rotating tables and figures purport to generate, through the systematic permutation of a small set of divine attributes and categorial principles, the answers to every question on which the rational soul might inquire. The framework was designed as a universal instrument of philosophical demonstration intended to convince Muslim and Jewish interlocutors of Christian doctrine, and the long subsequent reception through Bruno, Kircher, and Leibniz made the Ars one of the principal pre-modern ancestors of formal combinatorial logic.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ramon Llull:
“Through the gate of love the soul enters into wisdom.”
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“Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.”
Llull cited in: George Frederick Maclear (1863) A history of Christian missions during the Middle Ages . p. 365 -
“If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.”
The Hundred Names of God cited in: Margaret A. Boden (2006) Mind As Machine: A History of Cognitive Science . Vol 1. p. 56 -
“Tota dona val mes quan letra apren”
Every woman is worth more when she learns to read. | Llull cited in: Lucie Hayes (2009) Frommer's 24 Great Walks in Barcelona . p. 47 -
“Every woman is worth more when she learns to read.”
Tota dona val mes quan letra apren