Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

About Thomas Aquinas:

Tommaso d'Aquino is also known as the "Doctor Angelicus" and "Doctor Communis". He is heralded as the most influential Western medieval legal scholar and theologist. The name "Aquinas" identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino (in the present-day Lazio region), an area where his family held land until 1137.
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Friendship quotes by Thomas Aquinas, UberQuotes

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

Thomas Aquinas

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas

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

Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Thomas Aquinas

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

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

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

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

Thomas Aquinas

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Thomas Aquinas

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

Thomas Aquinas

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.

Thomas Aquinas

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Thomas Aquinas

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameThomas Aquinas
  • DescriptionItalian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church
  • BornJanuary 28, 1225
  • DiedMarch 7, 1274
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer; Theologian; Friar
  • WorksSumma Theologica; Summa Contra Gentiles