The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

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.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.