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Philosophical Quotes by Thomas Aquinas
- There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
- Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
- Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
- How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- Beware of the person of one book.
- 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…
- All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
- Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
- Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
- Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
- To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
- All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle