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 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.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
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.