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 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 Aquinas, happiness consists in an " operation of the speculative intellect ": " Consequently happiness consists principally in such an operation, viz.

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 this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to observations of structures larger than solar systems, as well as Big Bang cosmology interpreted under the Friedmann equations and the FLRW metric, dark matter accounts for 23 % of the mass-energy content of the observable universe.

According to Ward the universe is composed of " psychic monads " of different levels, interacting for mutual self-betterment.

According to Jain beliefs, the universe was never created, nor will it ever cease to exist.

According to the dominant cosmological model, the Lambda-CDM model, less than 5 % of the universe's energy density is made up of the " matter " described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and the majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy-with no agreement amongst scientists about what these are made of.

According to Mani, the unfolding of the universe takes place with three " creations ":

According to the MWI, each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe.

According to Plato we live in an orderly universe.

According to Harrison, the first to conceive of anything like the paradox was Thomas Digges, who was also the first to expound the Copernican system in English and may have been the first to postulate an infinite universe with infinitely many stars.

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Maquis were formed in the 24th Century after a peace treaty was enacted between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, redesignating the demilitarized zone between the two powers, which resulted in the Federation ceding several of their colony worlds to the Cardassians.

According to Schrödinger, the Copenhagen interpretation implies that the cat remains both alive and dead ( to the universe outside the box ) until the box is opened.

According to Hawking in particular, " M-theory is the only candidate for a complete theory of the universe.

According to the relationship of the system to the rest of the universe, one of three general types of ensembles may apply, in order of increasing complexity:

According to Thomas Kuhn, he and Descartes held the teleological principle that God conserved the amount of motion in the universe:

According to the de Broglie hypothesis, every object in the universe is a wave, a situation which gives rise to this phenomenon.

According to the researchers, the " discovery shows that water has been prevalent in the universe for nearly its entire existence.

* 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.

According to Michael Levey, " Raphael gives his a superhuman clarity and grace in a universe of Euclidian certainties ".

According to Cohen, those who took LSD " were not guilty of using illegal substances ... We were celebrating transcendental consciousness, the beauty of the universe, the beauty of being.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

According to Greek mythology, Antichthon was placed between Earth and the center of the universe, the throne of Zeus, to stop man from looking at the gods directly.

According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents-soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion have always existed ( a static universe similar to that of Epicureanism and steady state cosmological model ).

According to Islam, God, known in Arabic as Allah, is the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator, Sustainer, Ordainer, and Judge of the universe.