Quote of Thomas Aquinas - Nothing is in the intellect that...
Biography - Thomas Aquinas:
Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest and Doctor of the Church.
Born: 1225 - Died: 1274
Period:
13th century
Place of birth: Italy
Born: 1225 - Died: 1274
Period:
13th century
Place of birth: Italy
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
Translation
(French, German, Latin)
Nihil est in intellectu, quod non sit prius in sensu.
See also...
Quotes for: Sense
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.
Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.
Thomas Aquinas also said...
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