Saturday, February 2, 2008

St Thomas Aquinas

Vienna, Austria - 2007



1. “A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.”
2. “An angel can illume 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.”
3. "Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact angels have no religion as we know it... their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on earth."
4. “Art is right reason in the doing of work.”
5. “Beware the man of one book.”
6. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”
7. “Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him."
8. "Law is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by him who has the care of the community."
9. “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
10. “Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.”
11. "Now the human soul is the highest and noblest of forms."
12. “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.”
13. “The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
14. “The things that we love tell us what we are.”
15. “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."
16. “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”