Thomas Aquinas Quotes

A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

Thomas Aquinas

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• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

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• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

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• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

  

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• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

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• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

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• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  

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• I am happy in Paris.

  

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• We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

  

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• Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

  

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• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

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• Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

  

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• The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

  

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• A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Good
  • Reason
  • Choice