Tag: Thomas Aquinas
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas
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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas
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Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas
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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 to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas
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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
Thomas Aquinas
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas
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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 likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas