404 Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.

Better to illuminate, than merely to shine.

Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

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.