Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.Gabriel Marcel
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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