As it is better to give than to receive, so it is better to share the fruit of one's contemplation than merely to contemplate.
¶ (Attributed)
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St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Italian religious and philosopher
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.
¶ (Attributed)
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
¶ Summa Theologica (1274)
It is better to die excommunicated than to live and violate the conscience.
¶ Disputed Questions on Truth
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
¶ Quodlibet III, q.27 (1270)
Man should not strive after that which is beyond his reason.
¶ Summa Theologiae
Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.
¶ Summa Theologiae, I, q. 14, art. 13, ad 3 (c. 1077-1078)
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
¶ Summa Theologica, I, q.50 (c. 1267-1273)
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