Thomas Aquinas Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Desire, Wonder

• Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Thoughtful, Love Is

  "The Soul of a Nation: Culture, Morality, Law, Education, Faith". Book by Bernard J. Coughlin, p. 27, 2012.

• Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

• We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Order, Desire, Needs

• Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery

• He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Desire, Doe, Desirable

• Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Desire, Doe, Quench

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

• Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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