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Men Quotes by Jacques Maritain
- Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of…
- A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and…
- Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
- Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or…
- Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
- 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…
- A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes