Jean Guitton

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Jean Guitton


Born
in Saint-Étienne, France
August 18, 1901

Died
March 21, 1999


Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian.

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Mi testamento filosofico

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Nuevo arte de pensar

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Portrait de Marthe Robin

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Aprender a vivir y a pensar

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Jésus (essai français)

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“Etre dans le vent, c'est avoir le destin des feuilles mortes.”
Jean Guitton

“—La sabiduría, señor presidente, no es más que una justificación de la infancia. La infancia tenía razón. La edad adulta es una aventura o no es más que una caída. Los labios y los dientes revelan al ambicioso. La vocación está en la mirada. La ambición es una inquietud. La vocación es una espera. La ambición es un miedo. La vocación una alegría. La ambición calcula y falla y el éxito es el más estrepitoso de todos sus fracasos. La vocación se abandona y todo le es dado. Señor”
Jean Guitton, Mi testamento filosófico: Jean Guitton (Ensayo nº 391)

“Mais ce qui ne passera pas, c'est cette impression de découverte de soi que la lecture de Rousseau procure et qui est différente de celle de saint Augustin; car le péché n'est au fond ni l'homo peccator, ni l'homo poenitens, ni l'homo innocens, comme j'ai semblé le dire. Ce n'est pas le fauve ou le renard, le lion, ni même l'âne de la fable qu'il retrouve en nous. C'est le presque-saint, l'ange titubant, le menteur affamé de sincérité, le médiocre hanté par l'idée du parfait. En somme, ce n'est ni le saint, le héros, ni le pécheur ou le pervers : c'est le troisième homme, pécheur inconscient, fils prodigue et qui se pardonne généreusement. C'est le pauvre diable. C'est le pauvre homme. C'est l'homme.

Est-ce là le suprême détour de l'orgueil! Est-ce l'humilité vraie sans la vanité de se savoir humble!”
Jean Guitton, Judgements

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