“In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.”
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973) French philosopher
The Rights of Man and Natural Law (1943), p. 2.
“The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal—maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.”
Afterword (p. 220)
The Perseids and Other Stories (2000)
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