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Thomas Aquinas
Italian
Theologian
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Science
#Justice
#Friendship
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Man
#Mind
#Circumstances
#Justice
#Rectitude
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Time
#Mind
#Jokes
#Relaxation
#Deeds
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.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#God
#Work
#Existence
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,
Italian
Theologian
#God
#People
#Necessity
#Cause
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,
Italian
Theologian
#God
#Will
#Man
#Prayer
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.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#War
#Authority
#First
#Cause
#Order
#Intention
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Christ
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
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.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Death
#Reason
#Power
#Heresy
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Reason
#Salvation
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Harmony
#War
#Men
#Stars
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Love
#God
#Harmony
#First
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Faith
#Unity
#Church
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Will
#Man
#Virtue
#Happiness
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Nothing
#Reason
#Law
#Community
#Care
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,
Italian
Theologian
#May
#Knowledge
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#God
#Sin
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Act
#Courage
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Wonder
#Knowledge
#Desire
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Nature
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Evil
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Life
#Being
#Actions
#Direction
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Purpose
#Satisfaction
#Sorrow
#Sin
#Confession
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,
Italian
Theologian
#God
#Grace
#May
#Hell
#Punishment
#Saints
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Faith
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Work
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Desire
#Salvation
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Nothing
#Earth
#Friendship
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Men
#Church
#Salvation
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Right
#Self
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Reason
#Law
#Community
#Care
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Faith
#Truth
#Learning
#Ridicule
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Work
#Will
#Lie
#Artist
#Excellence
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Man
#Possession
#Hesitation
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Man
#Spiritual
#Joy
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Love
#Knowledge
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,
Italian
Theologian
#God
#Art
#Cause
#Knowledge
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Love
#Force
The things that we love tell us what we are.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Love
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Virtue
#Perfection
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Reason
#Men
#Sense
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#God
#World
#Reason
#Man
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Sorrow
#Sleep
#Wine
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Mind
#Passion
#Temperance
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Love
#Nothing
#Being
#Hatred
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Mind
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Patience
#Sin
#Imperfection
#Wrongs
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Spirit
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#God
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Power
#Woman
#Nature
#Production
#Sex
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,
Italian
Theologian
#People
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Wonder
#Being
#Poets
#Myths
#Philosophy
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,
Italian
Theologian
#God
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Friendship
Beware of the person of one book.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Liberty
#Men
#Nature
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Will
#Church
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Mind
#Reality
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,
Italian
Theologian
#Right
#Evil
#Wrong
#Conscience
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Hope
#Faith
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas,
Italian
Theologian
#Man
#Choice