Frases célebres de Tomás de Aquino
“Justicia sin misericordia es crueldad y misericordia sin justicia genera disolución.”
En latín: «Quia iustitia sine misericordia crudelitas est, misericordia sine iustitia mater est dissolutionis».
Justicia
Fuente: Super Evangelium S. Matthaei lectura. Capítulo V.
Frases de Dios de Tomás de Aquino
Frases de verdad de Tomás de Aquino
Tomás de Aquino Frases y Citas
“El obrar sigue al ser.”
Operari sequitur esse.
Sin fuentes
Educación
Original: «Operari sequitur esse».
“La justicia es la firme y constante voluntad de dar a cada uno lo suyo.”
En latín: «Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi».
Frase del derecho romano atribuida a Ulpiano que aparece en el Digesto, Libro I, Título 1, Ley 10 y usada por Santo Tomás en su Suma de Teología.
Justicia
Fuente: Summa Theologiae, 2-2, q. 58, a. 1
“Contemplar y dar a los demás lo contemplado.”
Sin fuentes
Justicia
Original: «Contemplari et aliis tradere contemplata».
“La noche es el tiempo propicio para la contemplación y el estudio.”
Sin fuentes
Educación
“Todos los hombres por naturaleza desean saber.”
Sin fuentes
Educación
Justicia
Fuente: Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 30, art. 4.
Sin fuentes
Dios
Amistad
Fuente: Summa Theologica, II, II, q. 25, a. 7.
Amor
Fuente: Sobre la caridad, 1. c., 204
Tomás de Aquino: Frases en inglés
“Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.”
q. 2, art. 3, arg. 19
This is known as the Peripatetic axiom.
De veritate (c. 1256–1259)
“Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.”
I, q. 1, art. 8, ad 2
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“Now, as the Word of God is the Son of God, so the love of God is the Holy Spirit.”
Sermon on the Apostles' Creed (c. 1273), Art. 8
“No evil can be excused because it is done with a good intention.”
Original: (la) Nullum malum bona intentione factum excusatur.
Variante: Variant translation: An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention.
Fuente: On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273)
Original: (la) Lex naturae […] nihil aliud est nisi lumen intellectis insitum nobis a Deo, per quod cognoscimus quid agendum et quid vitandum. Hoc lumen et hanc legem dedit Deus homini in creatione.
Fuente: On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273) Art. 1
Misattributed
Fuente: This quote, frequently attributed to Aquinas, is actually a paraphrase of a passage (itself an elaborate paraphrase of Augustine) by Ptolemy of Lucca in his continuation of an unfinished work by Aquinas. The passage from Ptolemy reads: "Thus, Augustine says that a whore acts in the world as the bilge in a ship or the sewer in a palace: 'Remove the sewer, and you will fill the palace with a stench.' Similarly, concerning the bilge, he says: 'Take away whores from the world, and you will fill it with sodomy.'" (Ptolemy of Lucca and Thomas Aquinas, On the Government of Rulers, trans. James M. Blythe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, 4. 14. 6). What Augustine actually wrote (in De ordine, 2. 4. 12) was simply: "Remove prostitutes from human affairs and you will unsettle everything on account of lusts." Only Book 1 and the first four chapters of Book 2 of On the Government of Rulers (De Regimine Principum) are by Aquinas. The rest of the work was written by Ptolemy. (It even mentions the coronation of Albert I of Hapsburg, an event that occurred in 1298, twenty-four years after Aquinas's death.) The quote comes from Book 4, which was definitely not written by Aquinas.
Fuente: De potentia (c. 1265–1266) q. 7, art. 9, ad 8
Fuente: De potentia (c. 1265–1266) q. 7, art. 5, ad 14
“Perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence.”
Fuente: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I–II, q. 3, art. 8 co
Fuente: On the Governance of the Jews (c. 1263–1265) art. 4
“Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe.”
Fuente: Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265) I, 1, 2
Fuente: Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1270–1272), 1, 3; quoted in Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York, 1952), p. 88
