The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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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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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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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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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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 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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It is only god who creates. Man merely arranges.
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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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Love follows knowledge.
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Beware the man of a single book.
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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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Our aspect of neighborly love is that we must not merely will our neighbors good, but actually work to bring it about.
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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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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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The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
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