"This is what Aristotle meant when he said that the object of science is the necessary and the universal; man and not this man."

"The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem."

"Facts themselves do not give knowledge"

"Philosophy, like science, is only a collection of hypotheses, introduced for the usefulness of the ensemble, or for economy of thought."

"To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy."

"Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: “God loves me!” And then add: “And I will try to love Him!"

"One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity."

"Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way."

"The lover of God never knows the words “too much.” Those who accuse others of loving God or religion too much really do not love God at all, nor do they know the meaning of love."

"From - Your Life is Worth Living: If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them."

"Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good."

"Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content."

"The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago."

"Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning."

"The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest."

"The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature."

"The 'fullness of reality' in the second sense of the term is perceived by a combination of both intellect and sense, the senses knowing the particular characteristics, the intellect knowing the nature."

"In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration."

"The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars"

"I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared."

"Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well."

"Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering."

"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

"Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it."

"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."

"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him."

"There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words."

"But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions."

"Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest."

"The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."

"My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole."

"Only through suffering can we find ourselves."

"What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead."

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

"To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's."

"To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her."

"If God does not exist, then everything is permissible."

"Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel."

"Wealth is the number of things one can do without."

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

"My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so."

"I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."

"The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight."

"Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness."

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

"Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification."

"I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness."

"There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home."

"The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul."