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Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274Related quotes
Sex Slavery (1890)
Context: O height and depth of purity, which fears so much that the children will not know who their fathers are, because, forsooth, they must rely upon their mother's word instead of the hired certification of some priest of the Church, or the Law! I wonder if the children would be improved to know what their fathers have done. I would rather, much rather, not know who my father was than know he had been a tyrant to my mother. I would rather, much rather, be illegitimate according to the statutes of men, than illegitimate according to the unchanging law of Nature.
“Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.”
Source: The Works Of Alexander Hamilton
“[U]niversal is known according to reason, but that which is particular, according to sense…”
Book I, Ch. VI, p. 59.
Physics
“He's just rather more lively than most fossils.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man
Context: Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.
Book 1, Chapter 6 “A Haven of Civilization” (p. 214)
The Land Leviathan (1974)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution