Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcotewas a British Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
men speech able
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
men harm can-do
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
wise men mind
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
teacher acceptance law
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
dwelling conscience
Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
men self wonder
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
thinking men action
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
power greater
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
superstitions judgment conscience
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
power use vain
That power is in vain which is never in use.
men firsts impossible
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
opportunity be-good known
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
half mysterious imperfect
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
knowledge known knows
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.