Thomas Aquinas Quotes

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

Friendship, True, Nothing

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Possible, Necessary

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

Live, Spiritual, True

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas

Faith, Hope, Hand

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas

Love, Knowledge, Off

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

Wise, Evil, Wrong

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Aquinas

Sympathy, Good, Sleep

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

Friendship, Greatest, Friends

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

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

Same, Others, While

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas Aquinas

Love, God, Live

The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Thomas Aquinas

Work, Good, Live

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas

Religion, Looking, Himself

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

Patience, Someone, Done

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

Philosophy, Big, Wonder

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

Keep, Forever, Aim

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas

Free, Choice, Rational

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.
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Nature, Power, Sex

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas

Mind, Reality, Drawn

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas

Others, Shine, Truths

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.
Thomas Aquinas

Others, Common, Share

Beware of the person of one book.
Thomas Aquinas

Book, Person, Beware

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

Faith, Truth, Learning

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Thomas Aquinas

Person, Whatever, Church

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Theologian

Born: 1225

Died: 1274

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