If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
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.
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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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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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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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To love is to will the good of the other.
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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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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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A mans heart is right when he wills that god wills.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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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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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.
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