Sublime

Again. Although that which is sometimes potential and sometimes actual, is in point of time potential before being actual, nevertheless actuality is simply before potentiality: because potentiality does not bring itself into actuality, but needs to be brought into actuality by something actual. Therefore whatever is in any way potential has somethi

For a superb presentation of Aristotelian premises and logic in the context of religious philosophy, there is no better presentation than Norbert M. Samuelson, Revelation and the God of Israel

Veritatis simplex oratio est. The language of truth is simple. Seneca

Simple honesty and humility.

The first way is as follows. Whatever is in motion is moved by another: and it is clear to the sense that something, the sun for instance, is in motion. Therefore it is set in motion by something else moving it. Now that which moves it is itself either moved or not. If it be not moved, then the point is proved that we must needs postulate an immova

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

“The divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect reaches,” announced Thomas Aquinas in the philosophical argot of his time. And he drew the personal consequences: “He knows God best who acknowledges that whatever he thinks or says falls short of what God really is”

Therefore if one of its parts is at rest, it follows that the whole is at rest. For if, while one part is at rest, another of its parts were in motion, the whole itself would not be moved primarily, but its part which is in motion while another is at rest. Now nothing that is at rest while another is at rest, is moved by itself: for that which is a

These merits, however, seem scarcely sufficient to justify his immense reputation. The appeal to reason is, in a sense, insincere, since the conclusion to be reached is fixed in advance. Take, for example, the indissolubility of marriage. This is advocated on the ground that the father is useful in the education of the children, (a) because he is m