Thomistic Quotes & Sayings

From a Thomistic point of view, Paley and Co. have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage; and while the Darwinians have been unquestionably thuggish and often dishonest in their critiques of the "Intelligent Design" movement, to the extent that ID proponents have followed Paley in trading in Aristotle for a basically mechanistic picture of the physical universe, they have been "asking for it. — Edward Feser

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. — Kristin Scott Thomas

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. — Leonard Cohen

The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment. — Wojciech Kurtyka

Once you know the nature of anger and joy is empty and you let them go, you free yourself from karma. — Gautama Buddha

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth. — Jacques Maritain

Do you want to know why I don't like the so-called connoisseurs of arts? I hate hypocrisy. I'll give you an example: if the movie is colored and tells us about two friends who sit in the pool, fart into the water, get out of the pool and fart into each other's face it will be thrash, a lack of a culture and a third-rate comedy. But if the movie is black-and-white and tells us about two friends who cross the desert and peeing on each other, shit on the sand, and then they eat each other's shit, and on top of that they fucking each other's ass it will be a brilliant art house movie. — Ilze Falb

Aristotelian hylomorphic anthropology of soul and body as form and matter of a single substance, as distinct from a Platonic or Cartesian two-substance dualism, or simple materialism or simple immaterialism or spiritualism. All three alternatives to Aristotelian-Thomistic hylomorphism are logically problematic as well as not in accord with our experience. — Peter Kreeft

A basic flaw in contemporary American educational philosophy as much as it is under the influence of the late John Dewey, is it s failure to grasp the essentially artistic character of teaching. Due to an inflated opinion of "science" and all things supposedly "scientific," educators have been loathe to admit that teaching is an art, not a science. The art of teaching is a mingling of the liberal and the dramatic arts. Above and beyond the subject matter, the teacher actually needs but two assets: (a) a grasp of the liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric,and logic; (b) a mastery of the dramatic art of presentation." - pg 126 footnote 1. — Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

There are some people who are always on the run, so much so that they find it hard to fit in the study of God's word. — Monica Johnson

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.' — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket. — David Adams Richards