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.
THOMAS AQUINASGod has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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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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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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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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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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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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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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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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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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