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

It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.

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.