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Quotation from Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
“For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding”
Summa Theologica, I, Q. 76, Art. 1, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province (1911-1920)
Part of the argument that the intellectual soul is the form of the body, uniting all vital functions in one principle.
Citation: "For the soul is the primary principle of our nourishment, sensation, and local movement; and likewise of our understanding" — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, Q. 76, Art. 1, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province (1911-1920). (id summa-theologica-q6)
Portrait: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Carlo Crivelli, Public domain.
