Quotes About Philosophy

I answer that, It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.

For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.

To see this we must learn that some have said that relation is not a reality, but only an idea. But this is plainly seen to be false from the very fact that things themselves have a mutual natural order and habitude.

el conocimiento de Dios se implanta naturalmente en todos». Por lo tanto, la existencia

Good can exist without evil whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.

Agere sequitur esse.

Whether an angel can be in several places at once? Objection 1: It would seem that an angel can be in several places at once. For an angel is not less endowed with power than the soul. But the soul is in several places at once, for it is entirely in every part of the body, as Augustine says (De Trin. vi). Therefore an angel can be in several places at once.

Reply to Objection 5: As was said above, the parts of the universe are ordered to each other, according as one acts on the other, and according as one is the end and exemplar of the other. But, as was said above, this can only happen to evil as joined to some good. Hence evil neither belongs to the perfection of the universe, nor does it come under the order of the same, except accidentally, that is, by reason of some good joined to it.

Pero según dice San Agustín, "así como el alma es la vida del cuerpo, así Dios es la vida del alma".

The definition that "Truth is the equation of thought and thing" is applicable to it under either aspect.

yet so that envy is not to be taken for a passion, but for a will resisting the good of another.

It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.

Is it not human for us all to have two minds, the one that sees an aspect of eternity, the other that must deal with the life which is measured in Time?

Tell us, Merlin," said he, "why do we feel no sense of triumph in this?" And Merlin answered, "Well, is not triumph a childish feeling, Sire?

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.