Quotations by Thomas Aquinas

Charity is a kind of friendship between man and God.

• On Nature of love, their position: Agape as gift55%

For a war to be just, three things are necessary: the authority of the sovereign, a just cause, and a rightful intention.

• On Violence, their position: Just war100%

There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

• On Source of knowledge, their position: Empiricism65%

Truth is the adequation of thing and intellect.

• On Nature of truth, their position: Correspondence90%

Ultimate and perfect beatitude can lie only in the vision of the divine essence.

• On The highest good, their position: Virtue / moral perfectionism60%

Whatever is moved is moved by another; we must therefore arrive at a first mover moved by nothing, and this everyone understands to be God.

• On Existence of God, their position: Theism98%