According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to Aquinas, the universe cannot, at any particular moment, be causing itself.

According to some, Aquinas conflates the natural law and natural right, the latter of which Aristotle posits in Book V of the Nicomachean Ethics ( Book IV of the Eudemian Ethics ).

According to Aquinas, to lack any of these virtues is to lack the ability to make a moral choice.

According to Aquinas, there are four different kinds of laws:

According to Thomas Aquinas, Among the cardinal virtues, prudence ranks first, justice second, fortitude third, temperance fourth, and after these the other virtues. Part of his justification for this hierarchy is that Fortitude without justice is an occasion of injustice ; since the stronger a man is the more ready is he to oppress the weaker.

According to legend, the 13th-century scientist and philosopher Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil, Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death circa 1280.

According to Singer, Aquinas held that conscience, or conscientia was an imperfect process of judgment applied to activity because knowledge of the natural law ( and all acts of natural virtue implicit therein ) was obscured in most people by education and custom that promoted selfishness rather than fellow-feeling ( Summa Theologiae, I – II, I ).

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, God is infinitely simple.

According to Aquinas, charity is an absolute requirement for happiness, which he holds as man's last goal.

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the Thrones have the task of pondering the disposition of divine judgments.

According to Thomas Aquinas the latter can only focus on what God is not, for instance considering God a spirit by removing from our conception anything pertaining to the body, while the mystic, instead of trying to comprehend what God is, is able to intuit it.

In recent years, the cognitive neuroscientist Walter Freeman proposes that Thomism is the philosophical system explaining cognition that is most compatible with neurodynamics, in a 2008 article in the journal Mind and Matter entitled " Nonlinear Brain Dynamics and Intention According to Aquinas.

According to River Forest Thomism, also called Aristotelian-Thomism, the natural sciences are epistemologically prior to metaphysics, preferably called Metascience. This approach emphasizes the Aristotelian foundations of Aquinas ’ s philosophy, and in particular the idea that the construction of a sound metaphysics must be preceded by a sound understanding of natural science, as interpreted in light of an Aristotelian philosophy of nature.

" According to Aquinas, " every sin consists in the desire for some mutable good, for which man has an inordinate desire, and the possession of which gives him inordinate pleasure.

According to Aquinas, the Beatific Vision surpasses both faith and reason.

According to Thomas Aquinas ( Summa Theologica, Part I, Question 21, Article 2 ), there are two kinds of " truth " ( veritas ), both understood as correspondence between mind ( intellectus ) or words ( oratio ) and world (" things ", res ):

According to a literary tradition at least three centuries old, Saint Thomas Aquinas is reputed to have employed the phrase " hominem unius libri timeo " ( meaning " I fear the man of a single book ").

According to the Catholic Church and virtually all other Christian denominations-Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic-the ritual elements of the Mosaic law, such as observance of Sabbath or dietary laws, were abrogated by the coming of Christ and the New Covenant ; St Thomas Aquinas went so far as to say practicing ritual elements of the Mosaic law was a mortal sin, as it was tantamount to denying that the Messiah had come.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and descriptions outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica, the seven gifts are as follows:

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, a canon regular is essentially a religious cleric ; " The Order of Canons Regular is necessarily constituted by religious clerics, because they are essentially destined to those works which relate to the Divine mysteries, whereas it is not so with the monastic Orders.

* Attributes of God According to Thomas Aquinas at PhilosophersAnswer. com

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the firmament had a " solid nature " and stood above a " region of fire, wherein all vapor must be consumed.

" According to Aquinas " Christ bore a satisfactory punishment, not for His, but for our sins.

According to Somparé, Conté " hid his physical suffering " for years " in order to give happiness to Guinea.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

According to Derek Parfit, using total happiness falls victim to the Repugnant Conclusion, whereby large numbers of people with very low but non-negative utility values can be seen as a better goal than a population of a less extreme size living in comfort.

According to Professor J. Harmatta, it goes back to Old Iranian Duγda-maya " giving happiness ".

According to a review in Boston. com on August 23, 2009, money doesn't buy much happiness unless it's used in certain ways.

According to professor Edward Glaeser, people constantly make choices that decrease their happiness, because they have also more important aims.

According to this, happiness should coincide with the consciousness of virtue, though its reference to the relations of human life requires the additional condition, that it is only in the enjoyment of the good things and circumstances originally designed for it by nature that it attains to completion ; to these good things, however, sensuous gratification does not belong.

According to the Nabonidus Cylinder, Nabonidus petitions the god Sin as follows: " And as for Belshazzar my firstborn son, my own child, let the fear of your great divinity be in his heart, and may he commit no sin ; may he enjoy happiness in life ".

'" According to historian Adam L. Tate, Taylor was " an agrarian who ' viewed happiness as possession of family, farm, and leisure ,' had no great love for organized religion, social hierarchy, and other such traditional institutions.

According to Robbins, Rohn taught him that " happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live.

According to legend, Belphegor was sent from Hell by Pluto to find out if there really was such a thing on earth as married happiness.

According to those scholars who saw the root of Jefferson's thought in Locke's doctrine, Jefferson replaced " estate " with " the pursuit of happiness ," although this does not mean that Jefferson meant the " pursuit of happiness " to refer primarily or exclusively to property.

According to biographers, she was a delightful child who brought much happiness to her parents.

According to legend, in 810 three sons of a Slav king – Bolko, Leszko and Cieszko, met here after a long pilgrimage, found a spring, and in their happiness decided to found a new settlement.

According to the Mishna ( Ta ' anit 4: 6 ), " from the beginning of Av, happiness is decreased.

According to him, they remained on good terms, with him saying, " I wish her all the happiness in the world.

According to Okawa, in order to obtain happiness one must practice the Principles of Happiness known as " The Fourfold Path ", Love, Wisdom, Self-Reflection and Progress.

According to the ethnographer, Joan Amades, it was a " customary figure in pessebres nativity scenes in the 19th century, because people believed that this deposit fertilized the ground of the pessebre, which became fertile and ensured the pessebre for the following year, and with it, the health of body and peace of mind required to make the pessebre, with the joy and happiness brought by Christmas near the hearth.

According to Daniel Kahneman, a Princeton University psychologist, happiness can be measured using the day reconstruction method, which consists in recollecting memories of the previous working day by writing a short diary.

According to Mill, this is an abstract philosophy separated from happiness.

According to the lyrics, the magic referenced in the title is the power of music to supply happiness and freedom to both those who make it and those who listen to it.