The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes. — 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