The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Frederick agreed that the punishment of La Barre was extreme; for his part he would rather have condemned the youth to read… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I know that Colbert could quote Thomas Aquinas and all this, but I'm somebody who, because it's a necessity for me on… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the… — Knud Haakonsen Copy Share Image
“Bonaventure was the first Superior of the Franciscan Order after the death of its founder. Thomas Aquinas once asked him where he… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.” — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion… — James W Sire Copy Share Image
“The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
“In a lovely book called On Hope, Josef Pieper explores Thomas Aquinas' theology of hope along these lines: the hopeful person is… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Dante’s notions of sin are shaped largely by the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. In his famous Summa Theologiae, Aquinas argues that… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Mary’s Fingerprints The most significant era where her fingerprints have been left is medieval Europe. The word medieval today has many negative… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“Thomas Aquinas said that people are fundamentally good and seek the goodness that is God. It goes wrong when we allow ourselves… — Lucette Verboven Copy Share Image
“St. Thomas Aquinas understood virtues to be habitual or abiding dispositions that help us to realize the good in our decisions and… — Mark O'Keefe Copy Share Image
Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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