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Augustine of Hippo

Quote of Augustine of Hippo: What does love look like? It...


Biography - Augustine of Hippo:

Christian theologian and philosopher.
Born: 354 - Died: 430
Period:
5th century
4th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.



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Quotes for: love


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Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: others


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Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.











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Quotes for: help


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.





Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.





Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.





People must help one another it is nature's law.





As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.











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Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.











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Quotes for: ears


We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.





A hungry stomach cannot hear.





Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.





The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.







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Augustine of Hippo also said...


Patience is the companion of wisdom.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





Love, and do what you will.





Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.





Custom is second nature.





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.












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