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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Saint Thomas Aquinas – 'The Dumb Ox'

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    In other words, the essence of the Thomist common sense is that two agencies are at work; reality and the recognition of reality; and their meeting is a sort of marriage
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    That strangeness of things, which is the light in all poetry, and indeed in all art, is really connected with their otherness; or what is called their objectivity
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    All things are; but among the things that are is the thing called difference, quite as much as the thing called similarity.
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    assification of unique units; or in the difficulty of recognising variety while admitting unity. The first of these three is called debate about flux or formless transition; the second is the debate about Nominalism and Realism, or the existence of general ideas; the third is called the ancient metaphysical riddle of the One and the Many
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    They dissolve the stick or the stone in chemical solutions of scepticism; either in the medium of mere time and change; or in the difficulties of classification of unique units; o
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    r in the difficulty of recognising variety while admitting unity
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    In other words, it is impossible even to say that the change is for the better, unless the best exists somewhere, both before and after the change
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    In other words, they agree with Aquinas that there is everywhere potentiality that has not reached its end in act
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    Looking at Being as it is now, as the baby looks at the grass, we see a second thing about it; in quite popular language, it looks secondary and dependent. Existence exists; but it is not sufficiently self-existent; and would never become so merely by going on existing
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    because what we see does not satisfy us or explain itself, it is not even what we see
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