With us composite things are better than simple things, because the perfections of created goodness cannot be found in one simple thing, but in many things.
 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1274). copy citation

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Author Thomas Aquinas
Source Summa Theologica
Topic perfection goodness
Date 1274
Language English
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Note Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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“Whatever is from God imitates Him, as caused things imitate the first cause. But it is of the essence of a thing to be in some sort composite; because at least its existence differs from its essence, as will be shown hereafter, (Q. 4, A. 3) . Reply Obj. 2: With us composite things are better than simple things, because the perfections of created goodness cannot be found in one simple thing, but in many things. But the perfection of divine goodness is found in one simple thing (QQ. 4, A. 1, and 6, A. 2) . _______________________ EIGHTH ARTICLE [I, Q. 3, Art. 8] Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things?” source