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Jacques Maritain

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Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) was a French Catholic philosopher.

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  • The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.
    • “Action: the Perfection of Human Life,” Sewanee Review, LVI (Winter, 1948), pp. 3-4
  • There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
    • True Humanism (1938), p. xi
  • In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
    • True Humanism (1938), p. xv
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