Author: Thomas Aquinas

Quotes

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

- Thomas Aquinas

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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

The things that we love tell us what we are.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

- Thomas Aquinas

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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

- Thomas Aquinas

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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

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

- 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.

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 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.

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

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