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It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.
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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.
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To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.
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What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.
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The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
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Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
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A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law.
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In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.
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There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
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The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
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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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God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
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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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Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
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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 sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence — even mental.
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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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God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
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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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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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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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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
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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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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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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Jacques Maritain
Born:
November 18, 1882
Died:
April 28, 1973
(aged 90)
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