Top 15 Thomas Aquinas Quotes

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)

Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, Italy. Among other things, he was a prominent proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. He argued that God is the source of both the light of natural reason and the light of faith. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy is derived from his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.

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Native Name: Thomas Aquinos

Alternative Names: Saint Thomas Aquinas • Saint Thomas • Tommaso d'Aquino • Thomas of Aquino • St Thomas Aquinas • St. Thomas Aquinas • Aquinas • Angelic Doctor • Dumb Ox

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Beware the man of a single book.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

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

The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.

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.

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

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

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?

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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