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“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”
― Theodor Adorno

“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
― theodor w. adorno

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

“There is no true life within a false life.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .”
― Adorno Theodor

“There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.”
― Sri Aurobindo

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
― Aristotle

“It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.”
― Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“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.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“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?”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
― Thomas Aquinas

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

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

“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.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“But a dauntless faith believes”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious”
― Thomas Aquinas

“justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.”
― Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew

“The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.”
― Thomas Aquinas