As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Thomas Aquinas
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  1. The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only when God lays His headagainst us.

  2. Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

  3. The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

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