"Thomam aufer, mutus fiet Aristoteles" (remove Thomas and Aristoteles will fall silent) Antonio Cittadini (aristotelico del Rinascimento, corrispondente di Pico della Mirandola)
Christum aufer, mutus fiet mundus
Remove Christ, [and] the universe will fall silent.
I.e., become incapable of articulate speech; be rendered mute or inarticulate; be struck dumb (cf. Ps. 19:1-4). Peter M. Candler after Antonio Cittandini (Thomae aufer, mutus fiet Aristoteles): "apart from Christ, the world cannot speak to us." In "The logic of Christian humanism," Communio: international Catholic review 36, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 79. Candler got Cittandini from Ralph McInerny, Praeambula fidei: Thomism and the God of the philosophers (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006): 306.
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