Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves. - Jacques Maritain

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

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About Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher, and was one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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