"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
― Thomas Aquinas
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Art
More From Thomas Aquinas
- "The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
- "To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."
- "If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
More In Art
- "I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”"― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love."― Claude Monet
- "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."― W. H. Auden