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Date: c. 1016-1021
"[The Active Intellect's] relation to our souls is that of the Sun to our vision."
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Date: c. 1016-1021
"So, initially coming to know something is like treating the eye, but then when the eye is healthy, whenever it wants it looks at something from which a given form is taken, while when it turns from that thing, that [thing] comes to be in potency proximate to act."
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Date: c. 1016-1021
"These bodily members are, as it were, no more than garments; which, because they have been attached to us for a long time, we think are us, or parts of us [and] the cause of this is the long period of adherence: we are accustomed to remove clothes and to throw them down, which we are entirely un...
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