Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
THOMAS AQUINASMost men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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Our aspect of neighborly love is that we must not merely will our neighbors good, but actually work to bring it about.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.
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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?
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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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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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Love follows knowledge.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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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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