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The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Peter Kreeft

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
Always
Tends
Reduce
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Modern
Seeing
Greater
Rather
Lesser
Mind
Reflecting

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