Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
“Friendship is the deepest part of love”
― Thomas Aquinas ,
from Pocket Aquinas
“351. The second reason shows that there is no infinite multitude. For everything countable can be numbered and consequently passed through by counting. But every number and whatever has a number is countable. Therefore, every such thing can be passed over. If, therefore any number, whether separated or existing in sensible things, be infinite, it follows that the infinite can be passed through, which is impossible. 352. Notice that these reasons are probable and proceed from common premises. For they do not conclude of necessity: in effect, whoever posits an infinite body would not concede that it would of its very nature be terminated by a surface, except perhaps potentially; although this is probable and well-known. Similarly, whoever would posit an infinite multitude would not admit it to be a number or that it has a number. For number adds to multitude the notion of measure, because a number is “multitude measured by unity,” as is said in Metaphysics X. For this reason number is considered to be a species of discrete quantity, but multitude is not; it is, rather, a transcendental.”
“Pero según dice San Agustín, "así como el alma es la vida del cuerpo, así Dios es la vida del alma".”
“San Gregorio dice: "El pecado que no se deshace por la penitencia, en seguida arrastra por su peso a otro pecado".”
“The forgiveness of God In God, there is another perfection, which inclines Him to forgive immediately the gravest and most numerous offenses, if we make a firm resolution to turn from them and truly to amend. Even more, God forgets these offenses in return for a single lamentation for a contrite heart, as Scripture says. And if we remain in this good will, He does not contemplate vengeance for our sins later, nor does He contemplate reproaching us with them in order to dismay us, nor charging us with them in order to love us less, nor driving us away from Him by withdrawing His intimacy.”
“It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.”
“Objection 2: Further, if it is a matter of argument, the argument is either from authority or from reason. If it is from authority, it seems unbefitting its dignity, for the proof from authority is the weakest form of proof. But if it is from reason, this is unbefitting its end, because, according to Gregory (Hom. 26), "faith has no merit in those things of which human reason brings its own experience." Therefore sacred doctrine is not a matter of argument.”
“«Puesto que Dios es el bien supremo, no permitiría que existiera ningún mal en sus obras, a menos que su omnipotencia y su bondad fueran capaces de sacar lo bueno del mal».”
“Esto es parte de la bondad infinita de Dios, que Él debe permitir que el mal exista, y de él se produzca el bien.”
“«el conocimiento de Dios se implanta naturalmente en todos». Por lo tanto, la existencia”
“saber que Dios existe de una manera general y confusa se implanta en nosotros por la naturaleza, en la medida en que Dios es la bienaventuranza del hombre.”
“Este mai de dorit minimul de cunoaștere a lucrurilor foarte importante decât cunoașterea socotită, foarte sigură a lucrurilor foarte mărunte.”
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“deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly”
“It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.”
“Achamos na natureza coisas que podem existir ou não existir, pois vemos seres que se produzem, e seres que se destroem, e, portanto, há possibilidade de que existam e de que não existam. Muito bem. É impossível que os seres de tal condição tenham existido sempre, já que o que tem possibilidade de não ser teve um tempo em que não foi. Se, pois, todas as coisas tem a possibilidade de não ser, houve um tempo em que nenhuma existia. Mas se isto é verdade, tampouco deveria existir agora coisa alguma, porque o que não existe, não começa a existir, a não ser em virtude do que já existe, e, portanto, se nada existia, foi impossível que começasse a existir qualquer coisa, e, em conseqüência, agora não haveria nada, coisa evidentemente falsa. Por conseguinte, nem todos os seres são possíveis ou contingentes, mas entre eles, forçosamente, há de haver algum que seja necessário. Mas o ser necessário ou tem a razão de sua necessidade em si mesmo ou não a tem. Se sua necessidade depende de outro, como não é possível, segundo já vimos ao tratar das causas eficientes, aceitar uma série indefinida de coisas necessárias, é forçoso que exista algo que seja necessário por si mesmo e que não tenha fora de si a causa de sua necessidade, mas que seja causa da necessidade dos outros, ao qual todos chamam Deus.”
“In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.”
“If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.”
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Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.