Quotes
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 about someone they know.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
Final and perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence... For perfect happiness the intellect needs to reach the very Essence of the First Cause. And thus it will have its perfection through union with God... in which alone man's happiness consists, as stated above.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God.
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Beware of the person of one book.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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.
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.