Philosophy Quote by St. Thomas Aquinas — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The soul is like an uninhabited world”

“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.”

““The soul is like an uninhabited world”

“We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.”

“The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself.”

“This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.”

“You can't always be right, but you can be wrong a lot less”

“The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty... not to reassure him, but to upset him.”

“A man's imperative command is not only to say "no" in cases where "yes" would be a sign of "disinterestedness," but also to say "no" as seldom as possible. One must part with all that which compels one to repeat "no," with ever greater frequency. The rationale of this principle is that all discharges of defensive forces, however slight they may be, involve enormous and absolutely superfluous losses when they become regular and habitual. Our greatest expenditure of strength is made up of those small and most frequent discharges of it. The act of keeping things off, of holding them at a distance, amounts to a discharge of strength,—do not deceive yourselves on this point!—and an expenditure of energy directed at purely negative ends. Simply by being compelled to keep constantly on his guard, a man may grow so weak as to be unable any longer to defend himself.”