“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“God is not, like creatures, made up of parts. God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“[I]t is to be borne in mind, in regard to the philosophical sciences, that the inferior sciences neither prove their principles nor… — 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
Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivocal either, since they are expressing themselves… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“*There is only one God*. Whatever exists is *ipso facto* individual; to be one it needs no extra property and calling it… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The emotion of love is an affective emotion, directly reacting to goodness, rather than an aggressive one, reacting to challenge. Not only… — 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
![“[I]t is to be borne in mind, in regard to the philosophical sciences, that the inferior sciences neither prove their principles nor dispute with those who deny them, but leave this to a higher science; whereas the highest of them, viz. metaphysics, can dispute with one who denies its principles…” quote by Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cfc/thomas-aquinas-837_faith_i-t-is-to-be-borne-in-mind-in-regard-to_496751.jpg)
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