If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
THOMAS AQUINASWe 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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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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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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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 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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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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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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