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Thomas Aquinas [1225-1274] Italian

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Theologian, Priest

Saint Thomas Aquinas O.P., was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis.

Faith, Knowledge, Friendship, God, Love, War, Courage, Death, Good, Happiness, Hope, Inspirational, Leadership, Learning, Men, Nature, Patience, Power, Religion, Science, Sympathy, Time, Truth, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.	Friendship	48
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.	Leadership	102
The things that we love tell us what we are.	Inspirational, Love	103
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.	Good, Sympathy	104
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.	Faith	105
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.		106
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.		107
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.		108
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.	Knowledge, Love	109
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.	Men, Nature	110
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.	Friendship	111
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.		112
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.		113
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.		114
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.	Time	115
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.		116
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.	Patience	117
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.		118
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.	Faith, Hope	119
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.		120
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.	Friendship, Science	121
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.	God, Work	122
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.	Knowledge	123
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.	Religion	124
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.	Courage	125
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.	God	126
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.		201
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.		202
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.	War	203
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.	Death, Power	204
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.		205
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.		206
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.		207
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.		208
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.		209
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.		210
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.	Knowledge	211
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.		212
Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.		213
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.	Faith, Learning, Truth	214
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.		215
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.	War	216
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.		217
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.		218
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.		219
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.	Happiness	220
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.		221
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.		222
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.		223
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.		224
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.		225
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.		226
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.		301
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.		302
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.		303
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.	Faith	304
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.		305
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.		306
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.		307
Beware of the person of one book.		308
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.		309
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.		310
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.		311
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.		312
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.	Knowledge	313
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.		314
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.		315

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