Comments on: Top 15 Quotes of Thomas Aquinas

By: grace

grace — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:23:42 +0000

It is not crazy but it is myopic. Ask Salman Rushdie, talk to a holocost survivor, read a little something about the crusades and you’ll undertand the irony!

By: chris

chris — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:05:29 +0000

not if you like facts

By: Jerome

Jerome — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:15:36 +0000

When science can fill all the holes I will dismiss tge idea of a being far superior to the human animal, but that day has not come. til it does my grandfather would say, “if it isn’t true it oughta be.”

By: Mchael Emezie

Mchael Emezie — Mon, 09 May 2011 13:26:58 +0000

there is a flux,nothing is static and non of this imperfection create no change to the realite of truth

By: coco bird

coco bird — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:39:55 +0000

hahah great philosophy it’s
very clover great comment deserve great admiration thats my philosophy

By: SketchesbyBoze

SketchesbyBoze — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:41:16 +0000

The agnostic historian Will Durant, in his 11-volume “History of Civilization,” informs us that this quote is not found in any of Aquinas’s extant writings.

By: domsavio

domsavio — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:01:15 +0000

It’s all a matter of your preferred historical point of view. Isn’t everything relative?

By: Gustav

Gustav — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:47:37 +0000

"6. Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
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To me this sound like "I can't see some things and other's i can't understand. And I'm not going to try it either.

"13. Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
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I like how one can see this as "Believe in evidence, desire knowledge and become educated"

"14. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
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This show a lot of the mind of a strong believer and the misconception of the one who doesn't believe in my opinion.

"15. Wonder is the desire for knowledge."
This speaks so much against religion it's pretty funny actually

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I'm an Atheist and I think all religion is wrong and i have a special resentment for Catholicism.

But in all sincerity i liked the mild manner of stating his case through these quotes. They were elegant, not always rational. But open for interpretation and not so condemning of others.

It's a shame that the seeming friendliness and his openness displayed in these few quotes, wasn't the Catholicism that killed and tortured so many during it's existence.

It was a nice surprise to see some thoughts out of a very religious man's point of view that wasn't sour with ignorance and prejudice.

By: V.Somers

V.Somers — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:04:55 +0000

Hey, what about these very eloquent quotes from Aquinas?
"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 *****; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
and
"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."

You have to admire someone who can rationalize how women are so defective and also supports the death penalty for non-believers. Saint? Indeed.

By: facehairteeth

facehairteeth — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:09:41 +0000

#7 is great. I love that in every age the hearts of men are drawn to the same God.