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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.

— Jacques Maritain The Peasant of the Garonne (1968)

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To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

An Essay on Christian Philosophy (1955)

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

The Range of Reason (1952)

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968)

It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.

Science and Wisdom (1954)

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Christianity and Democracy (1943)

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