The Act Of Philosophizing Involves

When One's Function Is To Teach The Loftiest Wisdom, It Is Difficult To Resist The Temptation To Believe That Until You Have Spoken, Nothing Has Been Said.

Nothing Is More Human Than For Man To Desire Naturally Things Impossible To His Nature. It Is, Indeed, The Property Of A Nature Which Is Not Closed Up In Matter Like The Nature Of Physical Things, But Which Is Intellectual Or Infinitized By The Spirit. It Is The Property Of A Metaphysical Nature. Such Desires Reach For The Infinite, Because The Intellect Thirsts For Being And Being Is Infinite.

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.

The Aim Of Education Is To Guide Young Persons In The Process Through Which They Shape Themselves As Human Persons-armed With Knowledge, Strength Of Judgment, And Moral Virtues-while At The Same Time Conveying To Them The Spiritual Heritage Of The Nation And The Civilization In Which They Are Involved.

Since Art Is A Virtue Of The Intellect, It Demands To Communicate With The Entire Universe Of The Intellect. Hence It Is That The Normal Climate Of Art Is Intelligence And Knowledge: Its Normal Soil, The Civilized Heritage Of A Consistent And Integrated System Of Beliefs And Values; Its Normal Horizon , The Infinity Of Human Experience Enlighted By The Passionate Insight Of Anguish Or The Intellectual Virtues Of A Contemplative Mind.