St. Thomas Aquinas

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Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Topic

Origin of the universe God Creation

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Summa Theologica

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1265 1260s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.

If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Topic

Problem of evil

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Summa Theologicae

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1265 1260s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.

Whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Topic

Friends Friendship

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Summa Theologica

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1265 1260s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1-2.

Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1-2.

Everything I have written seems like straw by comparison with what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Said following a mystical experience, after which Tolstoy did no more teaching or writing.

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Topic

Ecstatic visions

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Language

Latin

Time

1273 1270s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

St. Thomas Aquinus. Reply to Reginald of Piperno. c. 6 Dec. 1273.

Current Citation

St. Thomas Aquinus. Quoted in The Life of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Biographical Documents, written by Kenelm Foster. Longmans, Green and Company/Helicon Press, 1959.

Three things are necessary for man to be saved: knowledge of what is to be believed, knowledge of what is to be desired, and knowledge of what is to be done.

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Topic

Salvation

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Two Precepts of Charity

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1273 1270s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 1

Citation

St. Thomas Aquinas. Collationes in decem praeceptes [Sermons on the Ten Commandments]. c. 1273, prologue.

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

St. Thomas Aquinas

Summa Theologicae

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Topic

Nature of law

Author

St. Thomas Aquinas

Source

Summa Theologicae

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

Latin

Time

1273 1270s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1-2.

Current Citation

Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1-2.