Peter Abelard
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"Peter Abelard" was a medieval French Scholasticism/scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. He was also a composer. His affair with and love for Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century".

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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.

The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.