Quotes by Thomas Aquinas

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

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.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

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

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

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.