If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that politic… - Jacques Maritain

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

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

In so far as we are individuals, each of us is a fragment of a species, a part of this universe, a single dot in the immense network of forces and influences, cosmic, ethnic, historic, whose laws we obey. We are subject to the determination of the physical world. But each man is also a person, he is not subject to the stars and atoms; for he subsists entirely with the very subsistence of his spiritual soul, and the latter is in him a principle of creative unity, of independence and of freedom.