As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.