6 Thomas Aquinas Quotes on Philosophy

Thomas Aquinas quotes on philosophy

6. Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

9. Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

10. 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.

15. Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

16. One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

20. The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.