Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

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Anne Conway was an English philosopher whose work, in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists, was an influence on Gottfried Leibniz. Conway's thought is a deeply original form of rationalist philosophy, with hallmarks of gynocentric concerns and patterns that lead some to think of it as unique among seventeenth-century systems.

English - Philosopher | December 14, 1631 - February 18, 1679

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Spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually.

Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which has no vital principle of motion in it; but it is a living body which has life and perception, which are much more exalted than a mere mechanism or a mechanical motion.

Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway

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