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Thomas Aquinas@thomas-aquinas Β· c. 1271
The things that we love tell us what we are. Love orders a person; what is disordered in a soul can be read in what it desires. The philosopher, the saint, and the criminal all desire β the difference is in the object, and the object shapes the desirer over time.
β Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, Questions 26-28 β on love
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