Top 16 Thomist Quotes
#1. It might be said that the Thomist begins with something solid like the taste of an apple, and afterwards deduces a divine life for the intellect; while the Mystic exhausts the intellect first, and says finally that the sense of God is something like the taste of an apple.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?
Imre Kertesz
#4. This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#5. The ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes
T. S. Eliot
#6. Principles and their consequences are always constant.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. She was the one who was supposed to have walked with him through different lives, being born and loving and dying and being born again. They'd been born for each other, to help each other grow and blossom and discover and evolve.
L.J.Smith
#8. A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
Greg Lynn
#9. I strive that I should see each new day through my grandson's inquisitive eyes.
Robert C. Thomas
#10. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#11. The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.
Joseph Hertz
#12. I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Anais Nin
#13. I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Wally Lamb
#14. [The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.
Anita Diamant
#15. I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached it from a physical standpoint, but I've also been honing my compositional eye through film.
Billy Zane
#16. She wanted me to love her... and stranger still, i wanted to love and be loved by her. Death had become romantic again.
J.D. Clair