Aquinas Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot…
— Carl Sagan
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that…
— Martin Luther
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse…
— David Berlinski
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.…
— Paul Ryan
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila,…
— Robert Barron
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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may…
— Bertrand Russell
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
— Lionel Blue
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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 latter…
— Edward Feser
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the…
— Mishka
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to…
— James A. Michener
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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them…
— Allan Bloom
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The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to…
— Wilfred Trotter
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The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century),…
— Michael Shermer
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Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence…
— Henry Adams
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Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I…
— C.S. Lewis
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If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.
— Paul Ryan
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Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.
— Norman Geisler
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Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a…
— Norman Geisler
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In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it…
— Karen Armstrong
Who Wrote These Aquinas Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Aquinas Quotes as follows: