Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
THOMAS AQUINASFear 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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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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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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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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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
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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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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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True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of god.
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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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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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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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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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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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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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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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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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