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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
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Philosopher
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France
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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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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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There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
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Power without authority is tyranny.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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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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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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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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There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
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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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It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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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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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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Some truths are seen better through tears.
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Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.
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Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.
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The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
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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 light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, and is not perfected by what we shall learn to know as a scientific habit.
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