To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being. - Jacques Maritain

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

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.

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.