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Thomas Aquinas

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)

  • Fame84.5
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  • Italy rank#12
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  • Fame84.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Italy rank#12
  • Academics rank#25
  • Wikipedia154.6K
Lived 1225–1274, aged 49Italy
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  • Rank in Italy
    #12
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  • Era
    1225–1274
    Aged 49
Summary
Updated 2026-08-17

A 13th-century friar who bent Aristotle to the service of Christian doctrine and built a logical framework for proving God's existence that still shapes how the Catholic Church thinks.

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Born around 1225 in Italy, Thomas joined the Dominican order and spent his life trying to reconcile ancient Greek philosophy with Christian faith. Between 1256 and 1274 he wrote the Disputed Questions on Truth, the Summa contra Gentiles, and began the Summa Theologica — an unfinished but massive guide to Catholic theology that introduced his Five Ways of proving God and laid out a system of virtue ethics drawn partly from Aristotle. He also composed Eucharistic hymns still used in liturgy. He died on 7 March 1274, leaving behind Thomism, a school of thought that dominated medieval philosophy a…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas
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A hymn is the praise of God with song; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— Commentary on the Psalms (c. 1273), Introduction
Thomas Aquinas
said
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
— Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270)
Thomas Aquinas
said
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
— Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (Disputed Questions: On Charity, c. 1270)
Thomas Aquinas
said
The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.
— Commentary on the Metaphysics (c. 1270–1272), 1, 3; quoted in Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York, 1952), p. 88
Thomas Aquinas
said
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
— Opuscule II, De Regno (On Kingship, c. 1267)
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#12
Category rank
#25
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