Thomas Aquinas – 29 Quotes

29 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

– Thomas Aquinas

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

– Thomas Aquinas

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man’s own will.

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– 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

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

– Thomas Aquinas

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

– Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

– Thomas Aquinas

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

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

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