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Jean Guitton Quotes

1901–1999 France

Jean Guitton (1901 - 1999), French philosopher.

France
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The atheist confirms faith. And like a guinea pig that confirms my thesis or my faith in God.

I find that at twent it is easy to be a hero, a saint, an extraordinary man. I believe, however, that at ninety it is very difficult to live up to the moment.

What is the charm of a person? It is difficult to say, because charm is indefinable. It is a certain presence of the person beyond their limits, like the radiance of certain pure faces.

Jewish thought was oriented towards the future. In the history of the past, it sought the image of what did not yet exist.

The most enviable situation is not to be the subject of beauty and to know oneself to be beautiful, but to be the object of beauty and such that only the other enjoys what emanates from us.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Guitton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.