United States or Kiribati ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Speak, you've studied Latin and know how to argue." "But first, quid quaeritis? Nihil est in intellectu quod prius non fuerit in sensu; nihil volitum quin praecognitum."
A man blind from birth may also assure us that he feels no great longing to enjoy the world of sight nor suffers any great anguish from not having enjoyed it, and we must needs believe him, for what is wholly unknown cannot be the object of desire nihil volitum quin præcognitum, there can be no volition save of things already known.
Reversing the terms of the adage nihil volitum quin præcognitum, I have told you that nihil cognitum quin prævolitum, that we know nothing save what we have first, in one way or another, desired; and it may even be added that we can know nothing well save what we love, save what we pity.
Nevertheless, neither is faith transmissible or rational, nor is reason vital. The will and the intelligence have need of one another, and the reverse of that old aphorism, nihil volitum quin præcognitum, nothing is willed but what is previously known, is not so paradoxical as at first sight it may appear nihil cognitum quin prævolitum, nothing is known but what is previously willed.
Word Of The Day