
Summa Contra Gentiles, III,126,3
"The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Summa Contra Gentiles, III,126,3
Credo (1965)
Context: I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.
I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.
“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”
‘The invasion of Ulster’, The Spectator (29 September 1883), p. 6
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 39e