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Reason Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
- Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
- Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
- Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
- If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one…
- A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel…
- Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate…
- Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we…
- A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce…
- God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
- In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life…
- Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual…
- ...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority…
- It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for…
- Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
- Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
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