Jacques Maritain Quotes
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.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.
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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism, each phase is necessary in order that the spirit may receive equal development of heart and intellect without being carried too far in either direction.
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[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.
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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.
