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• But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Animal, Men, Free Will

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)”, p.996, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thinking, Mind, May

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• "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

  Thomas Aquinas

  Usury, Doing Nothing, Becoming

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• Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfect, Vision, Blessedness

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 1485.

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• For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Creatures, Moved

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.8957, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Justice, Wells

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• Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Fall, Omnipotence, Contradiction

  "Polyphonic Thinking and the Divine". Book by Jim Kanaris (p. 58), 2013.

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• Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Contemplative Life, Practice, Contemplation

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)”, p.1940, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Astrology, Causes, World

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• Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Positive, Powerful, Men

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• Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Religion, Atheism, Needs

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• It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Would Be, Generations

  Joseph Bobik, Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1998). “Aquinas on matter and form and the elements: a translation and interpretation of the De principiis naturae and the De mixtione elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Parent, Vices, Negative

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• Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Giving Up, Men, Baptism

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• Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Justice Of God, Baptism

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• O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Charity, Body, Affection

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• It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Existence, Known

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• An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Character, Angel, Men

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• Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

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  Children, Pride, Errors

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• It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Zeal, Contention, Effects

  Thomas Aquinas (2015). “Summa Theologica”, p.288, Xist Publishing

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• There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Angel, Self, Perfect

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1957). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith. Summa Contra Gentiles”

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• Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature.

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  Simple, Together, Might

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• To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  God, Reason, Command

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.

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  Christian, Lying, Passion

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• The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Self, Makers, Ends

  "Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2".

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