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It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"…... Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist...... she certainly did not envelop him in her love.
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The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.
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It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.
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The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
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The supernatural light of the spirit is the only night from which the spirit can emerge alive.
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To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.
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If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true.
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In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
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For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.
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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.
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The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.
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The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.
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Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.
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What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.
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There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
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The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.
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The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
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When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
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To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.
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It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.
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In so far as we are individuals, each of us is a fragment of a species, a part of this universe, a single dot in the immense network of forces and influences, cosmic, ethnic, historic, whose laws we obey. We are subject to the determination of the physical world. But each man is also a person, he is not subject to the stars and atoms; for he subsists entirely with the very subsistence of his spiritual soul, and the latter is in him a principle of creative unity, of independence and of freedom.
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A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
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The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
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Jacques Maritain
Born:
November 18, 1882
Died:
April 28, 1973
(aged 90)
Bio:
Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he became an agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St.
Known for:
Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays (1930)
Existence and the existent (1948)
Man & the state (1951)
Integral humanism (1936)
The Person and the Common Good (1947)
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