Famous Quotes / St. Thomas Aquinas
20 Quotations by St. Thomas Aquinas
- 1. A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
- 2. Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe ...
- 3. Beware of the man of one book.
- 4. Beware of the person of one book.
- 5. Beware the man of one book.
- 6. By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- 7. Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
- 8. Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money tha ...
- 9. Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable purs ...
- 10. Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
- 11. Man should not consider his material possessions his own, but as common to all, so as to share them ...
- 12. Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
- 13. Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
- 14. The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh ...
- 15. There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- 16. Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practi ...
- 17. To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
- 18. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- 19. Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
- 20. When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.