Peter Abelard

“Logic has made me hated in the world.”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.”

“God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.”

“Language is generated by the intellect and generates intellect.”

“An unjust law is no law at all.”

“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.”

“Nothing should be believed unless it is first understood.”

“Sin is not the desire for what is evil, but the consent to it.”

“Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also wins for us the true liberty of the sons of God.”

“I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.”