How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
THOMAS AQUINASThe greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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Love follows knowledge.
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Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.
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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you could live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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 the things it is necessary to turn to god for help.
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The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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