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“Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.”

Jacques Maritain

Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 117.

“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

True Humanism (1938), p. xv.

“The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.”

Jacques Maritain

Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 77.

“Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.”

Jacques Maritain

Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 9.

“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.”

Jacques Maritain

Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 116.