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Quotations: Scholasticism

The 7 quotations from the philosophers tied to this movement, each linked to the position it expresses.

Thomas Aquinas7 quotations

Charity is a kind of friendship between man and God.
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For a war to be just, three things are necessary: the authority of the sovereign, a just cause, and a rightful intention.
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Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.
Summa Theologiae, I, q. 1, a. 8, ad 2
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There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
Disputed Questions on Truth, q. 2, a. 3, arg. 19
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Truth is the adequation of thing and intellect.
Disputed Questions on Truth, q. 1, a. 1
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Ultimate and perfect beatitude can lie only in the vision of the divine essence.
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Whatever is moved is moved by another; we must therefore arrive at a first mover moved by nothing, and this everyone understands to be God.
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