Thomas Aquinas Quote by Lucette Verboven

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…

— Michael Shermer

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't…

— Paul Laffoley

“As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it…

— Thomas Keating

“Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is…

— Peter Kreeft

“Frederick agreed that the punishment of La Barre was extreme; for his part he would rather have condemned the youth to read the entire…

— Will Durant

I know that Colbert could quote Thomas Aquinas and all this, but I'm somebody who, because it's a necessity for me on a personal…

— Jim Gaffigan

“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned thought in…

— Andrew Bernstein

“The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the formulation given…

— Knud Haakonsen

“Bonaventure was the first Superior of the Franciscan Order after the death of its founder. Thomas Aquinas once asked him where he got his…

— Richard Wurmbrand

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God…

— Carl Sagan

“The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of…

— R. Alan Woods

“University of Chicago is a Baptist school, where atheist professors teach Jewish students about St. Thomas Aquinas.”

— Martin Gardner