"All the efforts of the human mind..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
More by Thomas Aquinas
“An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.”
“Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.”
“Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.”
More on Knowledge
More on Limitation
“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”
“Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.”
“Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing”