Thomas Aquinas Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the italian theologian Thomas Aquinas on topics like reason, mind, love

  • There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

    — Thomas Aquinas on friendship
    12
  • Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

    — Thomas Aquinas on love
    11
  • Beware of the person of one book.

    — Thomas Aquinas on reading
    9
  • Thomas Aquinas quote The things that we love tell us what we are.

    The things that we love tell us what we are.

    — Thomas Aquinas
    5
  • Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

    — Thomas Aquinas on reason
    8
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on salvation
    8
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  • By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

    — Thomas Aquinas on equality
    6
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on barely
    5
  • Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

    — Thomas Aquinas on willpower
    4
  • To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

    — Thomas Aquinas on persuasion
    4
  • Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

    — Thomas Aquinas on character
    4
  • A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

    — Thomas Aquinas on reason
    3
  • Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

    — Thomas Aquinas on faith
    3
  • About Thomas Aquinas

    Name Thomas Aquinas
    Quotes 69 quotations
    Nationality Italian
    Profession Theologian
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics reason, mind, love, live, work
  • Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

    — Thomas Aquinas on addicted
    3
  • The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

    — Thomas Aquinas on act
    2
  • Repeticio est mater studiorum.

    — Thomas Aquinas on education
    2
  • 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 on actual
    1
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  • 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 on ark
    1
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on artist
    1
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on god
    1
  • Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

    — Thomas Aquinas on friends
    1
  • Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

    — Thomas Aquinas on evil
    1
  • 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 on art
    1
  • How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

    — Thomas Aquinas on god
    1
  • Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients.

    Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

    — Thomas Aquinas on church
    1
  • 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 on believing
    1
  • Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

    — Thomas Aquinas on demands
    1
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on catholic
    0
  • All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

    — Thomas Aquinas on efforts
    0
  • Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

    — Thomas Aquinas on god
    0
  • 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 on enjoy
    0
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on independence
    0
  • 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 on active
    0
  • 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 on philosophy
    0
  • Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

    — Thomas Aquinas on desire
    0
  • To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

    — Thomas Aquinas on activity
    0
  • To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

    — Thomas Aquinas on faith
    0
  • Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

    — Thomas Aquinas on contemplate
    0
  • All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

    — Thomas Aquinas on origin
    0
  • Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

    — Thomas Aquinas on love
    0
  • It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

    — Thomas Aquinas on deeds
    0
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on acts
    0
  • The things that we love tell us what we are.

    — Thomas Aquinas on love
    0
  • Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

    — Thomas Aquinas on work
    0
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on acts
    0
  • God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

    — Thomas Aquinas on called
    0
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on amendment
    0
  • 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 on care
    0
  • 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.

    — Thomas Aquinas on god
    0
  • Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

    — Thomas Aquinas on accepts
    0
  • If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

    — Thomas Aquinas on aim
    0
  • Related Topics

    • friendship
    • earth
    • prized
    • true
    • love
    • wellordered
    • selflove
    • natural
    • reading
    • beware
    • person
    • book
    • reason
    • men
    • live
    • sense
    • salvation
    • things
    • man
    • desire
    • equality
    • nature
    • equal
    • liberty
    • endowments
    • barely
    • billions
    • declaring
    • harmony
    • minds
    • minute
    • stars
    • war
    • willpower
    • happiness

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