“Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical. In language too all universal terms presuppose the non-univocal analogical… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think of the terms: we think identity, for example, by thinking one thing twice over and relating it to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share
