Quotes about Philosophy

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all — and this we call God.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.

Even though the natural light of the human mind is inadequate to make known what is revealed by faith, nevertheless what is divinely taught to us by faith cannot be contrary to what we are endowed with by nature. One or the other would have to be false, and since we have both of them from God, he would be the cause of our error, which is impossible.

Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.

Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist.

If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.