Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
THOMAS AQUINASThe 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.
More Thomas Aquinas Quotes
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
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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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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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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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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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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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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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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
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Love follows 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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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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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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