Quotes about Perception

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.

our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.

Whatever is received into something is received according to the condition of the receiver

nothing can be known, save what is true;

Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

Reply to Objection 1: The six days, as Augustine understands them, are taken as the six classes of things known by the angels; so that the day's unit is taken according to the unit of the thing understood; which, nevertheless, can be apprehended by various ways of knowing it.

For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.

Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.