But that's philosophy for you! (Gabe is toying with my reflexive Aristotelian empiricism again).
- Everything eternal is necessary.
- Every creature participates in goodness in the same degree as it participates in being.
- In the universe, only the intellectual nature is sought on its own account, all others on account of it.
- Desire of the knowledge of truth is peculiar to human nature.
- Evil is not caused except by good.
- Everything evil is rooted in some good, and everything false in some truth.
- Evil produces no effect except in virtue of some good.
- However much evil is multiplied, it is never able completely to swallow good.
- Stronger than the evil in wickedness is the good in goodness.
- Good can be realized in purer form than evil. For there is some good in which no evil is mixed, but there is nothing so very evil that no good is mixed in it.
From The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy by Joseph Pieper
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