Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, O.P., was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, where his family held land until 1137...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionTheologian
CountryItaly
love moving circles
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.
two acts-of-love persons
An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
love knowing doe
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
pain memories love-is
Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.
love-is force binding
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
love-is charity
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
love relationship self
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
philosophical thoughtful love-is
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
thoughtful love-is punishment
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
evil catholic purity-and-love
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
love fear philosophy
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
love love-is
To love is to will the good of the other.
powerful thoughtful love-is
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
powerful thoughtful love-is
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.