The Metalogicon Quotes

“We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.”
― John of Salisbury, Metalogicon of John Salisbury

“Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.”
― John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

“Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.”
― John of Salisbury, Metalogicon of John Salisbury