Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

"“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”"
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"“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”"
Thomas Aquinas
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
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
"The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them."
Thomas Aquinas
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
Thomas Aquinas
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
Thomas Aquinas
"Wonder is the desire for knowledge."
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
"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
Thomas Aquinas
"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community."
Thomas Aquinas
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
Thomas Aquinas
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
Thomas Aquinas
"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
Thomas Aquinas
"Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will."
Thomas Aquinas
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
Thomas Aquinas
"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
Thomas Aquinas
"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
Thomas Aquinas
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
Thomas Aquinas
"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
Thomas Aquinas
"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."
Thomas Aquinas
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