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.
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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.
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