Epistemology Quote by Thomas Aquinas

““knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode””

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Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

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Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

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“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which…

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“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.”

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Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death…

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When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

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Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

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By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by…

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“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object, what causes love is the goodness or agreeableness of that object. Evil can only be loved because it seems good, because being partially good it is perceived as wholly so. And the beautiful is a form…

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The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or…

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