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It may be stated as all axiom that to stay alive every created thing needs some other created thing and all things need God. To God alone nothing is necessary.
A. W. Tozer • Essential Tozer Collection
Ockham wrote that “a plurality is not to be posited without necessity”—essentially that we should prefer the simplest explanation with the fewest moving parts.2,3 They are easier to falsify, easier to understand, and generally more likely to be correct.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
IF you want to know what is meant by “God’s will” in man’s life, this is one way to get a good idea of it. “God’s will” is certainly found in anything that is required of us in order that we may be united with one another in love. You can call this, if you like, the basic tenet of the Natural Law, which is that we should treat others as we would
... See moreThomas Merton • New Seeds of Contemplation
A thing is not moved by itself if it is moved accidentally, since its motion is occasioned by the motion of something else.
Saint Thomas Aquinas • The Summa Contra Gentiles (Illustrated)
Aristotle’s most important work in logic is the doctrine of the syllogism. A syllogism is an argument consisting of three parts, a major premiss, a minor premiss, and a conclusion. Syllogisms are of a number of different kinds, each of which has a name, given by the scholastics. The most familiar is the kind called “Barbara”: All men are mortal
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
It was therefore necessary that, besides philosophical science built up by reason there should be a sacred science learned through revelation.
Peter Kreeft • Summa of The Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
