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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use,
from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
- Thomas Aquinas
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
- Thomas Aquinas
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- Thomas Aquinas
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined
to me and cherished by myself.
- Thomas Aquinas
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- Thomas Aquinas
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
- Thomas Aquinas
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars -
when most men can barely go a minute without declaring
war in their minds about someone they know.
- Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures,
and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- Thomas Aquinas
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand
dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
- Thomas Aquinas
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save
through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved.
And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
- Thomas Aquinas
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 intention.
- Thomas Aquinas
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
- Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship,
he would keep it in port forever.
- Thomas Aquinas
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
- Thomas Aquinas
The highest manifestation of life consists in this:
that a being governs its own actions.
A thing which is always subject to the direction of
another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- Thomas Aquinas
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
- Thomas Aquinas
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace
of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the
punishment of the damned in hell.
- Thomas Aquinas
Beware of the person of one book.
- Thomas Aquinas
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good,
made by him who has care of the community.
- Thomas Aquinas
God should not be called an individual substance,
since the principal of individuation is matter.
- Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep,
a bath and a glass of wine.
- Thomas Aquinas
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has
its origin in the Spirit.
- Thomas Aquinas
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work,
but in the excellence of the work he produces.
- Thomas Aquinas
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 to things made by his art.
- Thomas Aquinas
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence,
although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work
of His more surely known to us.
- Thomas Aquinas
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God;
the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
- Thomas Aquinas
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients.
Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
- Thomas Aquinas
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection,
but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else
is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
- Thomas Aquinas
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
- Thomas Aquinas
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
- Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man
does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- Thomas Aquinas
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go,
take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
- Thomas Aquinas
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
- Thomas Aquinas
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not,
we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
- Thomas Aquinas
We can't have full knowledge all at once.
We must start by believing; then afterwards we may
be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
- Thomas Aquinas
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions,
but regulates them.
- Thomas Aquinas
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived
of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become
addicted to carnal pleasures.
- Thomas Aquinas
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we
are all madly in love with the same God.
- Thomas Aquinas
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible
guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
- Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is secured through virtue;
it is a good attained by man's own will.
- Thomas Aquinas
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- Thomas Aquinas
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power,
there is much more reason for excommunicating and even
putting to death one convicted of heresy.
- Thomas Aquinas
Better to illuminate than merely to shine,
to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
- Thomas Aquinas
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
- Thomas Aquinas
By nature all men are equal in liberty,
but not in other endowments.
- Thomas Aquinas
Man should not consider his material possession his own,
but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
- 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.
- Thomas Aquinas
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 know what he ought to do.
- Thomas Aquinas
There is but one Church in which men find salvation,
just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
- Thomas Aquinas
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
- Thomas Aquinas
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily
equivalent to distinctions in reality.
- Thomas Aquinas
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good,
promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
- Thomas Aquinas
The things that we love tell us what we are.
- Thomas Aquinas
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
- Thomas Aquinas
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
- Thomas Aquinas
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 he who acts against
his conscience always sins.
- 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.
- Thomas Aquinas
Three conditions are necessary for Penance:
contrition,
which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment;
confession of sins without any omission;
and satisfaction by means of good works.
- Thomas Aquinas
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 of necessity in other things.
And all people call this thing God.
- Thomas Aquinas
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule
among the infidels if any Catholic,
not gifted with the necessary scientific learning,
presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
- Thomas Aquinas
It is clear that he does not pray, who,
far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God
shall lower Himself to him,
and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills,
but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
- 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.
- Thomas Aquinas
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human
society it is requisite that the highest obligations
possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
- Isaac Barrow
I am less disposed to think of a West Point education
as requisite for this business than I was at first.
Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
It is only requisite, for me to say to you,
that the President places great reliance upon your skill,
judgment and intimate knowledge.
- Anson Jones
The first requisite for immortality is death.
- Stanislaw Lec
The first requisite for the happiness of the people
is the abolition of religion.
- Karl Marx
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
- Sigmund Freud
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