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Thomas Aquinas
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  • By comparison, sir, my life is far closer to that of St. Thomas Aquinas—†  (source)
  • He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith.†  (source)
  • But you'll labor like Thomas Aquinas over a rat-dog's pedigree.†  (source)
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  • To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.†  (source)
    Thomas Aquinas = exceedingly influential philosopher who greatly furthered Catholic reconciliation of faith and reason (1225-1274)
  • The real fun is working up hatred between those who say "mass" and those who say "holy communion" when neither party could possibly state the difference between, say, Hooker's doctrine and Thomas Aquinas', in any form which would hold water for five minutes.†  (source)
  • Thomas Aquinas, as the result of a mystical experience while celebrating mass in Naples, put his pen and ink on the shelf and left the last chapters of his Summa Theologica to be completed by another hand.†  (source)
  • The town would not have seemed strange to Thomas Aquinas,—but he to the town.†  (source)
  • Like Thomas Aquinas, they regarded trade in general—the basic commercial act of buying and selling for a profit without having altered or improved the product—as a despicable occupation.†  (source)
  • So Mr. Casaubon's patience held out further, and when after all it turned out that the head of Saint Thomas Aquinas would be more perfect if another sitting could be had, it was granted for the morrow.†  (source)
  • All this is a doctrine derived directly from St. Thomas Aquinas.†  (source)
  • In the duffel bag was his diary, and his well-worn paperback edition of Selections from the Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas—I took them both; and his Bible.†  (source)
  • Sophie nodded, and the monk went on: "The greatest and most significant philosopher of this period was St. Thomas Aquinas, who lived from 1225 to 1274.†  (source)
  • "For then alone do we know God truly," writes Saint Thomas Aquinas, "when we believe that He is far above all that man can possibly think of God.†  (source)
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