Thomas Aquinas Quotes
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Aquinas, Thomas. On Kingship, to the King of Cyprus. Translated by Gerald B. Phelan, The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1949, p. 58.
the love of reason and intellectual pursuits carried Islam scholarship to the highest levels until “reason” was limited by the fundamentalist religious leadership, both in scope and methodology, to that which was consistent with a narrow view of Islam and the world. Then decline and stagnation took over and drove most of the Islamic world to its present state.
He was persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church for figuring out that the earth revolved around the sun which was contrary to church teaching at the time.
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.
