Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Quotations in the Metaphysics

I'm starting to read a chapter a day in St. Thomas' commentary on the Metaphysics.

There are a lot of good quotes in there:

"All men naturally desire to know."

"Now in men experience comes from memory."

"But we see that men of experience are more proficient than those who have theory without experience." (Too true!)

"A sign of scientific knowledge is the ability to teach." (i.e, those who can, do; those who can't, teach.)

"For it is because of wonder that men both now and formerly began to philosophize."

From St. Thomas "For when an inexperienced person acts correctly, this happens by luck" (explaining Polus' "Experience causes art and inexperience luck.")

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