[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of…

“As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it…

— Thomas Keating

“I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go…

— Flannery O'Connor

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument…

— Bertrand Russell

“Chili is one of those marvelous-simple, elemental, all-important, and fundamental concepts that has been elaborated out of all recognition: rather like justice, or objective…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between…

— Josef Pieper

“The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the formulation given…

— Knud Haakonsen

“John Finnis observed that, since there is no doctrine of subjective rights in Aquinas and there is such a doctrine in Suarez, a “watershed”…

— Brian Tierney

“Aquinas teaches: " As God did not bind His power to the Sacraments, so as to be unable to bestow the sacramental effect without…

— Joseph Pohle

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the…

— David Berlinski

Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the…

— Edward Feser

“There is ... a contemporary trend to make a sort of 'common intellect' out of society and forbid man his own independent access to…

— Mary T. Clark

“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion of God…

— James W Sire

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

— Jeremy Taylor

“The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the first cold…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Thomas Aquinas said that people are fundamentally good and seek the goodness that is God. It goes wrong when we allow ourselves to be…

— Lucette Verboven