Thomas von Aquin: Zitate auf Englisch

Thomas von Aquin war dominikanischer Philosoph und Theologe. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“Now what has been said about the Jews is also to be understood about Cahorsins, and anyone else depending upon the depravity of usury.”

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Thomas Aquinas

Quelle: On the Governance of the Jews (c. 1263–1265) art. 4

“Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.”

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Thomas Aquinas Summa contra gentiles

Quelle: Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265) I, 1, 2

“The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.”

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Thomas Aquinas

Quelle: Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1270–1272), 1, 3; quoted in Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York, 1952), p. 88

“There does not fall under the scope of God's omnipotence anything that implies a contradiction. Now that the past should not have been implies a contradiction.... Whence, that the past should not have been, does not come under the scope of divine power.”

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Thomas Aquinas buch Summa theologica

Quelle: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I, q. 25, art. 4