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Biography - Thomas Aquinas:

Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest and Doctor of the Church.
Born: 1225 - Died: 1274
Period:
13th century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Conformity of the intellect to the things.



Note 

Note



*The Truth is…




Translation

Translation

(German, French, Latin)



German
Übereinstimmung der Sache mit dem Verstand.

French
Adéquation de l'esprit à la chose.

Latin
Adæquatio intellectus et rei.




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Quotes for: thing


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Quotes about thing:


He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things.





There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.





Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.





It is valid to conclude from actuality to possibility, but not from possibility to actuality.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.





Things do not change we change.











Quotes for: truth


Quotes

Quotes for: truth


Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Love truth, but pardon error.





The language of truth is simple.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.











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Thomas Aquinas also said...


To love is to will the good of the other.





I fear the man of a single book.





For whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.





Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.





Everything evil is rooted in some good and everything false in some truth.












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