“Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts
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Famous Thomas Aquinas Quotes
“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”
Source: Philosophical Texts
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts
Source: Aquinas Selected Political Writings
“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”
“How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.”
Source: Saint Thomas Aquinas
“All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.”
“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.”
Source: Theological texts
“Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.”
Source: Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One
“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”
“Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.”
Source: Theological texts
“To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.”
“All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.”