by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The mind just like the senses of the body gathers data about physical things but data about immaterial things are gathered from the mind itself. For this reason, the mind knows itself in itself because it, too, is immaterial.De Trinitate IX, 3, 3.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Man knows two kinds of thing, those which the soul perceives by means of the senses and those which it intuits in itself. Certain philosophers have used a lot of arguments questioning the testimony of the senses but they have never been able to call into doubt certain...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Love, in deed, the formation of the mind. The Sacred Writings themselves call us to believe many wonderful things before we can understand them but, if you don’t understand them correctly, they will be of little use to you.Epistula 120, 13.
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Saints Peter and Paul (C) Mt. 16:13-19: Homily of Saint Augustine (Sermon 76,1-2) “When the Lord Jesus Christ asked, who were the people saying that he was, and the disciples gathered various opinions of men. The Lord asked them again saying: And you, who do you...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Liars labor to speak; those who speak truth, however, speak with ease. For he who masks what he says has to work at it while whoever speaks the truth doesn’t struggle since truth itself speaks effortlessly.Enarrationes in psalmos 139, 13.
