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Nature Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect…
- Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
- It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...…
- 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…
- Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
- Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against…
- If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has…
- Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we…
- Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in…
- If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that…
- 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…
- 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…
- The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
- Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.
- 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…
- By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle