Summa Theologica

Quotes

• “To love is to will the good of the other.”

• “Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.”

• “Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.”

• “Thus God alone can satisfy the will of a human being.”

• “Thus from the four preceding articles, the definition of law may be gathered; and it is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated.”