Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Benziger Bros., 1947, Part I, Question 10, Article 1.
Greece claims him, but he was born and worked in Asia Minor in what is now Turkey. He was right on and our civilization did not realize that he was correct until 2,000 years later. And we keep discovering smaller and smaller parts.
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the Doctor Angelicus, the Doctor Communis, and the Doctor Universalis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, Italy. Among other things, he was a prominent proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. He argued that God is the source of both the light of natural reason and the light of faith. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.