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Causes Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful…
- The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is…
- Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its…
- Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,…
- Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because…
- The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.
- It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause…
- Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love)…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams