If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to… — 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
It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason — 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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