Quote #12
Abuse does not rule out use.
More from Thomas Aquinas
- If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violen…
- Beware the man of one book.
- As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a pe…
- Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasur…
- Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
- Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.
- 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…
- One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.