No sign is so clear that it does not also carry some obscurity
Nullum est tam clarum signum quod non involvat aliquid obscuritatis
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John Calvin
French-born Reformed theologian (1509-1564). His Institutes systematized Protestant theology; from Geneva he built presbyterian polity, predestination doctrine and strict discipline that shaped Reformed Protestantism.
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You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.
-- Parmenides
For thinking and Being are the same.
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Color exists by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in reality there are only atoms and void.
-- Democritus
I know that I know nothing.
-- Socrates
Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.
-- Plato
All things are ungraspable.
-- Pyrrho