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Peter Abelard

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The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.


— Peter Abelard


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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.


— Peter Abelard


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His teaching was notably successful though for a time he had to give it up the strain proving too great for his constitution. Héloïse praised these songs in a letter: "The great charm and sweetness in language and music and a soft attractiveness of the melody obliged even the unlettered". To appease Fulbert Abélard proposed a secret marriage so as not to mar his career prospects.

beˈlaːʁ]; 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher theologian and preeminent logician. Peter Abelard (/ˈæb. The story of his affair with and love for Heloise has become legendary.

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