"A scrap of knowledge about sublime things..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas

“How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.”

“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.”

“Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.”

“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.”

“No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.”

“To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.”

“Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.”

“Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.”

“Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.”