Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God. — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask. — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena. — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself. — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
![“Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on mountains, which water no doubt deposited there enveloped in sticky mud, and which were prevented by coldness and dryness of the stone from…” quote by Albertus Magnus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5a7/albertus-magnus-39861_animal_evidence-of-this-transformation-of-anima_3017159.jpg)