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The medievals well knew their own maxim that “the argument from authority is the weakest of all arguments” (see S.T. I, i, 8, obj. 2). But they also believed in doing their homework and in learning from their ancestors—two habits we would do well to cultivate today.
Peter Kreeft • Summa of The Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
St Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Jesuits, who went so far as to proclaim that he would have counted it a cause for pride had he been of Jewish extraction.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
She sits as a monument of the hopelessness and helplessness of reason in the face of this romantic and unreasonable world.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
It is hard to see how anybody can call Wycliffe a Protestant unless he calls Palagius or Arius a Protestant;
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
What follows is an abstract of the Summa contra Gentiles.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
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Lian Laya • 10 cards
Ambrose, while he was eminent as a statesman, was, in other respects, merely typical of his age. He wrote, like other ecclesiastical authors, a treatise in praise of virginity, and another deprecating the remarriage of widows. When he had decided on the site for his new cathedral, two skeletons (revealed in a vision, it was said) were conveniently
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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
In regard to the state of nature, Locke was less original than Hobbes, who regarded it as one in which there was war of all against all, and life was nasty, brutish, and short. But Hobbes was reputed an atheist. The view of the state of nature and of natural law which Locke accepted from his predecessors cannot be freed from its theological basis;
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