Plato's Stepchild

"Immortality, a consequence of spirituality, immortality of the human intellect and the human soul, may seem doubtful in certain texts of Aristotle." - Garrigou-Lagrange, Reality I absolutely cannot stand NeoScholastic sophistry and obscurantism.

"The dodecahedron...the most mystical...has twelve sides, each of which is a pentagon...It also illustrates the traditional, sacred pattern of twelve tribes around a common sanctuary or twelve saints or heroes with a thirteenth as leader." - John Michell

"The whole 'Galileo affair' starts as a conflict initiated by a secular Aristotelian philosopher, who, unable to silence Galileo by philosophical arguments, uses religion to achieve his aim." - Jules Speller Galileo's Inquisition Trial Revisited

It's hard to fathom that we were trapped inside an Aristotelian time warp for over 400 years.

"Had I the power of disposing of these works, I would have them all burnt: it is a waste of time to study them, a source of error and of diffusion of ignorance greater than can be described." - Roger Bacon on the Latin translations of Aristotle

"William of Moerbeke translated directly from the Greek. His work is believed to have been done at the request of Thomas Aquinas... 'But it was notorious in Paris,' says Bacon, 'that William of Moerbeke was totally ignorant of science, and his translations are full of errors.'

"It was nothing wonderful to find Aristotle wrong, as he was wrong on so many questions." - Galileo Authority, habit, and prejudice may sometimes lead to truth, but the probabilities are very much against it.,, And Aristotle...was not perfect." - Roger Bacon to Pope Clement IV

"If physics describes the physical world, then mathematics belongs to Plato's realm." - Roger Penrose

"Causality can only explain later events by earlier events, but it can never explain the beginning." - Werner Heisenberg

What was Aristotelianism's aesthetic? It had none. Where were its great works of art? Non-existent. It had nothing to spark the imagination. No symbology to raise the spirit upwards. All it had was didactic tomes and words. Just words.

The failure of Aristotelian Scholasticism, both old and new iterations. Jacques Maritain Center:

There is always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark. - Atticus

"Torquemada...a Thomist, was a critic of the feast and doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception...Pusey republished his polemic against the celebration of the feast, written at the Council of Basel, to combat the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX."

"Dominicans were active at Council of Trent; not all can be numbered among true Thomists, a most obvious example being Bishop Catharinus who defended the Immaculate Conception and other non-Thomistic positions. But the majority...followed the mind and spirit of Thomas Aquinas."

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard...For what man knows the things of a man...Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit...But the sensual man perceiveth not these things...For it is foolishness to him. - 1 Corinthians 2

"The canonization (of Aquinas) was fiercely contested by the Franciscans, who rejected the doctrines of Thomas...a Franciscan friar stated that he 'would prefer to die before seeing the day when Thomas was canonized' and remarkably died a day after..." - Marika Räsänen

"Accordingly we must hold that she was conceived with original sin..." - St. Thomas Aquinas Compendium Theologiae

"As time went on, it did become quite a dangerous thing for brave Dominicans to oppose the Immaculate Conception in public...in Seville in 1615...a Dominican happened to mention in a sermon in the church...that he didn't agree with the Immaculate Conception. The locals marched.."

"These moderns who, with amazing blindness and presumption, try to make Aristotle the heretic into a Catholic... Let them not deceive themselves then,...that by turning Aristotle into a Catholic, they make themselves into heretics." - Bishop Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln