Tao Te Ching
Summa Theologica
3,500 pages representing one of the most influential books in all of Western literature, the Summa Theologica—although unfinished—explains the reasoning behind almost all of the Catholic Church’s theology. Intended for beginning students, Aquinas says in the Prologue that “because frequent repetition brings weariness and confusion,” he tries to write “as briefly and clearly as the matter itself may allow.” Apparently, the matters didn’t allow because the 3,500 pages seem anything but “brief.” To its credit though and following Aquinas’ dictum, “Beware the person of one book,” he cites Muslim, Pagan, Hebrew sources; Aristotle, Avicenna, Cicero, Plato, Averroes, and many of our other lineage holders.
Quotes from Summa Theologica
“Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.”
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“This is true which is, therefore contradictions can be true at the same time since they seem to be true as seen by different persons at the same time.”
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“War is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.”
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