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“Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

Supplement, Q98, Article 4
Note: This Supplement to the Third Part was compiled after Aquinas's death by Regnald of Piperno, out of material from Aquinas's much earlier "Commentary on the Sentences".
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
Context: Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain; hence it is written (Isaiah 26:11): "Let the envious people see and be confounded, and let fire devour Thy enemies." Therefore they will wish all the good were damned.

“Beware the man of a single book.”
Hominem unius libri timeo. / Timeo hominem unius libri.

As quoted by Leonard Sweet, The Greatest Story Never Told http://books.google.gr/books?id=KuTRcjWL91AC&dq=, section: "The Gift of Lyrics", Abingdon Press, 2012<br>Variant: "Beware the man of one book."<br>See also: Homo unius libri <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: I fear the man of a single book.

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

Variant: For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”

“Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

II–II, 188 <br class="br"> Original Latin http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/sth3183.html: Sicut enim maius est illuminare quam lucere solum, ita maius est contemplata aliis tradere quam solum contemplari. <br class="br">Summa Theologica (1265–1274) <br class="br">Variant: Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.”

“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.”

“Wonder is the desire of knowledge.”

“Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.”

“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?”

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.”

“Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

“There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.”

“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.”

“Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.
If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.”

“The happy man in this life needs friends.”

“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.”

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles