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Jacques Maritain Quotes: Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.
         

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.


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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.



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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.



God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth



Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.



We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve



Some truths are seen better through tears.

Some truths are seen better through tears.



Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.



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.

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.



The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.



The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.





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