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Thomas Aquinas was a medieval Italian dominican theologian and philosopher. St. Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.”
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“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. ”
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“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
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“Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves in their effects. We could call them analogical....”
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“For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think of the terms: we think identity, for example, by thinking one...”
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“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being changed. Secondly, things with dimensions are potentia...”
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