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Intellect Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves…
- There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows…
- Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
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