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

If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true.

The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.

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