This page features a selection of the best quotes by St. Thomas Aquinas. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Aquinas in no particular order: He who enters religion does not make profession to be perfect, but he professes to endeavor to attain perfection; even as he who enters the schools does not profess to have knowledge, but to study in order to acquire knowledge. – Summa Theologica, II-II, 186, 2 Knowledge is loved not that any good …
The Best Quotes by St. Augustine (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by St. Augustine. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by St. Augustine in no particular order: Though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue …
The Best Quotes on Epicureanism (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes on Epicureanism. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes on Epicureanism in no particular order: Epicurus: When we say that pleasure is the end and aim … we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. It is not an unbroken succession of drinking-bouts and of merrymaking, not sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a luxurious table, which …
The Best Quotes on Ethics (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes on ethics. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes on ethics in no particular order: No man voluntarily pursues evil, or that which he thinks to be evil. To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to chose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he may have the less. – Socrates as quoted in Plato, Protagoras, 358C, …
The Best Quotes on Epistemology (Real Quotes With References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes on epistemology. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes on epistemology in no particular order: I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. – Socrates, as quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, bk. 2, Socrates Meno: How will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know? What will you put forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want, how will …