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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques Maritain
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Jacques Maritain
Age: 90 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 18
Died: 1973
Died: April 28
Diplomat
Pedagogue
Philosopher
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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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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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There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
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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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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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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 love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love they cannot tolerate its defects.
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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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Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
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The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
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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 only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.
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Power without authority is tyranny.
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To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.
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There is no question that the language of felt thought must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.
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We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve
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There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
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In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.
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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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