There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
THOMAS AQUINASThe 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.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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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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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
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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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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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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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