Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost...… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality!… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image