Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery

• God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Evil, Benefits, World

• Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Simple, Together, Might

• There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfect, Grades, All Things

  Thomas Aquinas (1976). “Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation”, University of Notre Dame Pess

• The greatness of the human being consists in this:
  that it is capable of the universe.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Greatness, Humans, Human Beings

  "Questiones disputatae: De veritate (Disputed Questions: On Truth)". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Question 1, Article 2, Ad. 4), 1256-1259.

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