John of Salisbury Quotes

• Somos como enanos sentados a hombros de gigantes. Vemos más y cosas más lejanas que ellos, no porque nuestra vista sea superior o porque seamos más altos que ellos, sino porque ellos nos elevan y, con su gran estatura, aumentan la nuestra.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Sight, Add, Sitting

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• Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Law, Tyrants, Differences

  "Policraticus". Book by John of Salisbury, Bk. 4, ch. 1, 1159.

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• He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Mayo

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• A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Men, Virtue, Proportion

  "Policraticus". Book by John of Salisbury, Bk. 7, ch. 25, 1159.

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• Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

  Juan de Salisbury

  Filth, Logic, Everlasting

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• Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Alma, Cuerpo, Camino

  John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.81, Paul Dry Books

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• Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Inquiry, Hardship, Fruit

  John of Salisbury (2009). “The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium”, p.104, Paul Dry Books

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• The common people say, that physicians are the class
  of people who kill other men in the most polite and
  courteous manner.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Men, Class, People

  Policraticus Bk II, Ch. 29

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• Entre todas las artes liberales, la primera es la lógica, y específicamente aquella parte de la lógica que da una instrucción inicial sobre las palabras. ... [La palabra "lógica" tiene un significado amplio y no se limita exclusivamente a la ciencia del razonamiento argumentativo. [Incluye] la gramática [que] es "la ciencia de hablar y escribir correctamente, el punto de partida de todos los estudios liberales".

  Juan de Salisbury

  Art, Writing, Science

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• Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Reading, Saint, Range

  John (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres) (1979). “Policraticus: the statesman's book”, Frederick Ungar

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• Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

  Juan de Salisbury

  Eye, Might, Cloaks

  John (of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres) (1963). “The statesman's book of John of Salisbury: being the fourth, fifth, and sixth books, and selections from the seventh and eighth books, of the Policraticus”

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