Top 67 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

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.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

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

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

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.

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.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

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.

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.