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Aristotelés ()

This is why Plato, in the Timaeus, identifies ´matter´ and ´room´, because ´room´ and ´the receptive-of determination´ are one and the same thing. His account of the ´receptive´ differs in the Timaeus and in what are known as his Unwritten Teachings, but he is consistent in asserting the identity of ´place´ and ´room´. Thus, whereas everyone asserts the reality of ´place´, only Plato has so much as attempted to tell us what it is.b
(Physics IV, 2, 209b 14)
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b Aristotle too identifies ´place´ and ´room´ (cf. Introduction to this Book, p. 272), but Aristotle assimilates them /289/ both to the surface-continent, and Plato to the intramural dimensionally. See Plato, Tim. 52 A and Archer Hind, ad loc.
(xxxx, Physics, Cambridge, Mass. + London 1980, p. 289.)

Anselm z Canterbury ()

… Non tento, domine, penetrare altitudinem tuam, quia nullatenus comparo illi intellectum meum; sed desidero aliquatenus intelligere veritatem tuam, quam credit et amat cor meum. Neque enim quaero intelligere ut credam, sed credo ut intelligam. Nam ad hoc credo: quia „„nisi credidero, non intelligam“.
… Nepokouším se, Pane, proniknout tvé výšiny, protože na to mé nahlédnutí ani zdaleka nestačí. Toužím však alespoň poněkud nahlédnout tvou pravdu, v kterou věří a kterou miluje mé srdce. Nesnažím se totiž nahlédnout, abych věřil, ale věřím, abych nahlédl. Neboť věřím také tomu, že pokud nebudu věřit, nemohu ani nahlédnout.
(6825, Fides quaerens intellectum, Praha 1990, lat. str. 32, česky str. 33.)