There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.The Wisdom of Thomas Aquinas, Blogging on Business, 2024
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Thomas Aquinas was a renowned Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and theologian who lived in the 13th century. He is best known for his influential works in natural theology, such as the Summa Theologica, where he sought to reconcile faith and reason. Aquinas is considered one of the greatest Christian theologians and philosophers of all time.
1225–1274·lived 49 years
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.The Wisdom of Thomas Aquinas, Blogging on Business, 2024
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
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.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 141, 1265
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 1, Art. 5
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 35, Art. 1
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.Summa Theologica, Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 136
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.Summa Theologica, Part III, Question 62, Article 5
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.Summa Theologica, I-II, Q2, Art. 5, Christian Classics Ethereal Library
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
The things that we love tell us what we are.Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 23, a. 8
That’s all 11 quotes by Thomas Aquinas.