We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Quote by Jacques Maritain

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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes...

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes...

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a...

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a...

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and...

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and...

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that...

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that...

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of...

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of...

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that...

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that...

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of...

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of...

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the...

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the...

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as...

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as...

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront...

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront...

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in...

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment. By the kind of intelligence that sees in...

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence...

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence...

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human...

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human...

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced...

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced...

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less...

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less...

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I...

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I...