“Love follows knowledge.” Thomas Aquinas
“The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. ”“The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.”
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
Thomas Aquinas
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Kal-de-Frog
You may recognize a "good thing" .... when love grows because of that.
What if you follow a "thing" that is not good? Do you lose your time?
"If you think education is expensive, then wait until you see how much ignorance costs you."
Absolute knowledge does not exists. Where knowledge ends are begining the beliefs and the superstitions.
And those are uncontrolled (random). And people force their beliefs and superstitions as the ultimate truth and go to war for those. Not much love in this.
But one may have self knowledge because he lives in himself. This is the only truth and knowledge we may have access.
There may be one or two things that our senses are NOT capable of being deceived of and of these one or two things we can have absolute certainty. If there is only such kernel of knowledge that we can be sure of, it must be:
Something exists."
If the senses are limited how may one know the reality? Which are the tools? But all tools to research the reality are limited so you may never be able to know the reality using tools.
So the only way to know the reality is to be one with the reality. To overlap with the reality.
Where or how one overlaps with the reality? Only inwardly without using any tool. Inwardly without using the senses and the logic. .... From this point on words are useless ....