If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
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.