Footnotes
Footnotes
1 Aristotle.
2 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, “Plato.”
3 “To pass on to others the fruits of contemplation.”
4 Pope Pius XI, “On St. Thomas Aquinas.”
5 John 3:30.
6 Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, lect. 6.
7 “On Being and Essence.”
8 Q. 1, art. 1.
9 “Against the Adversaries of the Religious State.”
10 Quoted by Grabmann, H. Thomas von Aquin.
11 These dates are not certain, and authorities do not agree on them.
12 Ps. 131:14 (RSV = Ps. 132:14).
13 “Faith seeking understanding.”
14 Maurice Barrès, Les Maitres, Dante.
15 Dante, Divine Comedy, “Paradise,” canto 30, line 40.
16 Barrès, Les Maitres, Dante.
17 “And that, for lack of one heart, the century was lost.”
18 I am grateful to Fr. John O’Connor for the following translation: “Great nature, quivering to know, / Evermore spreading up, as though / For wider view to thy crown wouldst grow.”
19 Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 14, arts. 1, 2.
20 1 Cor. 6:17.
21 Bk. 2, lect. 1.
22 Bk. 3, lect. 1.
23 1 Thess. 5:21.
24 Commentary on Job, ch. 13, lect. 2.
25 In III Metaphysics, lect. 1.
26 “A comprehensive mind, which sees all, knows all, and embraces all.”
27 Cf. A. G. Sertillanges, Foundation of Thomistic Philosophy, trans. G. Anstruther, O.P. (London: Sands and Co., 1931).
28 Emerson, Representative Men, “Shakespeare.”
29 Cf. Paul Valéry, Preface au Léonard de Vinci.
30 Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 3, art. 4 (quoting St. Augustine).
31 Contra Gentiles, I, ch. 2.
32 Ibid., ch. 1.
33 Quoted by St. Thomas, Quaest. De Veritate, Q. 2, art. 2.
34 Carlyle, Heroes and Hero-Worship, lect. 3.
35 La Jeunesse d’Ernest Renan.
36 Few, for instance, would, without reflecting, dream of attributing to him an idea like the following, which nevertheless is quite authentic: “Hope, like smoke, from the fire of love, mounts up from life and vanishes in glory” (in Epist. ad Ephes. prologue).
37 “By his birth he gave himself as our companion, at table as our food, at death as our ransom, and reigning he gives himself as our reward.”
38 “In comparison with which, all knowledge is a mere heap” (Péguy).
39 Catéchisme des Incroyants.
40 De Ente et Essentia, ch. 6.
41 2 Tim. 3:7.
42 From the beginning; literally, “from the egg.”
43 Cf. Summa Theologica, I, Q. 84, art. 8.