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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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What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.

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The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

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Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

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The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

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The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence — even mental.

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To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain

Born: November 18, 1882
Died: April 28, 1973 (aged 90)
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