Saint Thomas Aquinas

Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Beware of the person of one book.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

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 inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Saint Thomas Aquinas