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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

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

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

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

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

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

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

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.

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

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

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence
even mental.

It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

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.

Power without authority is tyranny.