Thomas Aquinas said that people are fundamentally good and…

“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

“Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness…

— Thomas Aquinas