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Human Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
- Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
- Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate…
- The world of pure spirits stretches between the divine nature and the world of human beings; because divine wisdom has ordained that the higher should…
- ...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority…
- It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the…
- The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
- It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
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