404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

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

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his mode