Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
“A forma é anterior à matéria. A matéria é o ente em potência, e a forma é o acto dela. Ora, o acto naturalmente é anterior à potência. Simplesmente falando, o acto é anterior à potência no tempo, porque a potência não pode ser movida ao acto a não ser pelo ente em acto. Entretanto, em uma e mesma coisa, a qual às vezes está em potência e às vezes está em acto, a potência precede ao acto no tempo. Desta maneira, fica claro que a forma é anterior à matéria, e é mais ente do que a matéria. E isto porque a matéria não se torna ente em acto a não ser pela forma. Logo, a forma é mais ente do que a matéria.”
“Therefore our natural desire for knowledge cannot come to rest within us until we know the first cause, and that not in any way, but in its very essence. The first cause is God. Consequently the ultimate end of an intellectual creature is the vision of God in His essence” (The Divine Trinity, Chapter 104).”
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“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence – we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.”
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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.