Albertus Magnus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Lying #Men #Snakes
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
-- Albertus Magnus

#World #Noble #Aviation
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Spiritual #Heart #Eye
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Attachment #Inward #Way
It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8)
-- Albertus Magnus

#Love #Faith #Inspiration
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on mountains, which water no doubt deposited there enveloped in sticky mud, and which were prevented by coldness and dryness of the stone from petrifying completely. Very striking evidence of this kind is found in the stones of Paris, in which one very often meets round shells the shape of the moon.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Animal #Moon #Rocks
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Doe #Causes #Natural
The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Persistent #Confidence In God #Greater
I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Gone #World #Losing
To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.
-- Albertus Magnus

#Science #Animal #Rocks
Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis
-- Albertus Magnus

#Kings #Philosophy #War

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