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Things Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- The things that we love tell us what we are.
- Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
- Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that…
- Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to…
- In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful…
- The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is…
- Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,…
- If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to…
- Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
- In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture…
- It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.
- To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all…
- Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,
- It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause…
- Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse…
- Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves…
- If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much,…
- Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so…
- The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
- The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the…
- It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the…
- There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
- The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
- A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle