For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
Thomas AquinasThe highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas AquinasPractical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.
Thomas Aquinas