“[I]t is to be borne in mind, in regard to the philosophical sciences, that the inferior sciences neither prove their principles nor… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components. — 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 Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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 Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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