Nov 6, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
Much of what we need in life we must ask for. As this is simply a given, it points to the importance of learning how, what, and whom to ask. Thomas Aquinas holds that we can naturally know that there is a God who can help us, and who is worthy of honor and worship....
Mar 27, 2019 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“What is more, the deity was not content to care for the body but, most important, also implanted in the human being the soul and made it dominant. …For is it not quite obvious to you that, in comparison with the other animals, humans live like gods, naturally...
Dec 24, 2015 | Articles, Ethika Politika, Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
My piece at Ethika Politika: Aristotle’s Key to Christmas: Though he couldn’t have known it, Aristotle had the key to understanding Christmas. His master achievement was a profound understanding of human happiness. It is as though he grasped as much as can be...
Mar 25, 2015 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known Above high air of heaven by my fame, Carrying with me in my ships our gods Of hearth and home, saved from the enemy. I look for Italy to be my fatherland, And my descent is from all-highest Jove.” Virgil, The Aeneid Aeneas says he’s...
Jan 28, 2015 | Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“So those who use the works of philosophers in sacred doctrine, by bringing them into the service of faith, do not mix water with wine, but rather change water into wine.” – St. Thomas Aquinas “The scanty conceptions to which we can attain of celestial things...
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