Averroes (Ibn Rushd) — "The purpose of prophecy is to teach the masses what they cannot grasp through re…"
The purpose of prophecy is to teach the masses what they cannot grasp through reason alone.
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"The purpose of rhetoric is to persuade, the purpose of logic is to prove, and the purpose of philosophy is to know."
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