Birth: 1401 Death: August 11, 1464
Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity..
Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist..
We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with their particular ….
All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach..
In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy..
The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and….
The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own begi….
Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is….
There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from t….
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon ….
If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man can….
Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my….
Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal..
For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a fl….
Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things i….
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goo….
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things tr….
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them..
All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire..
God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'.
The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own..