Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), sometimes called the Angelic Doctor and the Prince of Scholastics, was an Italian Catholic priest, philosopher and theologian.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
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Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas
