Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is n…

- Albertus Magnus

It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, …

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Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on …

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In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in cont…

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Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

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Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the li…

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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she s…

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To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reprodu…

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I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.

- Albertus Magnus