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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.
Jacques Maritain
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Jacques Maritain
Age: 90 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 18
Died: 1973
Died: April 28
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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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There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
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With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.
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The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
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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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To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.
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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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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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