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Quotation by Jacques Maritain
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Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry Pantheon (1953)
Reflections on America (1948)
"The Democratic Charter" Man and the State, University of Chicago Press (1951)
The Range of Reason Scribner (1953)
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
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Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), French philosopher. Reflections on America, ch. 4 (1948).
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