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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— Thomas Aquinas
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.
— Bertrand Russell
Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.
— Thomas Aquinas
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
— Thomas Aquinas
We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior.
— Deborah Harkness
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
— Thomas Aquinas
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
— Thomas Aquinas
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
— Thomas Aquinas
Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.
— Bertrand Russell
For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
— Thomas Aquinas
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— Thomas Aquinas
Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
— Thomas Aquinas
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
— Thomas Aquinas
Art is right reason in the doing of work.
— Thomas Aquinas
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
— Thomas Aquinas
Heaven help me! I used to be fairly good at thinking. I could paraphrase any page in Aquinas once.
— G.K. Chesterton
University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.
— Martin Gardner
Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.
— Thomas Aquinas
Angels need an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account.
— Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— Thomas Aquinas
If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
— Thomas Aquinas
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.
— Thomas Aquinas
A thing is lovable according as it is good. But God is infinite good. Therefore He is infinitely lovable.
— Thomas Aquinas
If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.
— Thomas Aquinas
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
— Thomas Aquinas
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
— Thomas Aquinas
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— Thomas Aquinas
He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
— Thomas Aquinas
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
— Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered By reading of one book.
— Jeremy Taylor
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— Thomas Aquinas
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
— Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
— Thomas Aquinas
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
— Thomas Aquinas
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— Thomas Aquinas
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— Thomas Aquinas
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
— Thomas Aquinas
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— Thomas Aquinas
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
— Thomas Aquinas
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
— Thomas Aquinas
Our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— Thomas Aquinas
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
— Thomas Aquinas
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
— Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— Thomas Aquinas
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
— Thomas Aquinas
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.
— Anthony John Patrick Kenny
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
— Thomas Aquinas
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— Thomas Aquinas
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
— Thomas Aquinas
But a dauntless faith believes
— Thomas Aquinas
nothing can be known, save what is true;
— Thomas Aquinas
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
— Thomas Aquinas
Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.
— Thomas Aquinas
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
— Thomas Aquinas
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— Thomas Aquinas
it remains for us to treat of His image,
— Thomas Aquinas
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
— Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
— Thomas Aquinas
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
— Thomas Aquinas
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
— Thomas Aquinas
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.
— Thomas Aquinas
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.
— Thomas Aquinas
In the end, we know God as unknown.
— Thomas Aquinas
God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
— Thomas Aquinas
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
— Thomas Aquinas
The things we love
tell us who we are. — Thomas Aquinas
tell us who we are. — Thomas Aquinas
An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
— Thomas Aquinas
The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.
— Thomas Aquinas
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
— Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— Thomas Aquinas
The soul is known by it's acts.
— Thomas Aquinas