We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques MaritainRead
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Interpretation
Gratitude reflects deep appreciation and respect towards others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of gratitude as a noble and refined expression of appreciation. Jacques Maritain suggests that being grateful goes beyond mere politeness; it signifies a profound respect for others and their contributions to our lives.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a speech about the importance of gratitude in personal relationships.
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.
We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process _x000D_ through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.
where are the snowdens of yesteryear?
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
Laws without morals are in vain.
This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
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