Albertus Magnus

The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.

— Albertus Magnus

To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production…

— Albertus Magnus

In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as…

— Albertus Magnus

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

— Albertus Magnus

I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

— Albertus Magnus

Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of…

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It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where…

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Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions…

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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself.…

— Albertus Magnus

Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last…

— Albertus Magnus

Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in…

— Albertus Magnus