Jean Guitton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
-- Jean Guitton

#Self #Numbers
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
-- Jean Guitton

#Numbers #Originality #Individual
The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy - but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord's supper... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or at least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.
-- Jean Guitton

#Catholic #Relax #Reform
It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words,Â â€˜I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.â€™
-- Jean Guitton

#Teaching #Blow #Humanity
When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?
-- Jean Guitton

#Parent #Church #Saint
The tolerance of the skepticâ€¦ accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the â€œdogmatist.â€
-- Jean Guitton

#Tolerance #Opinion #Accepting
Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.
-- Jean Guitton

#Forever #Mind #Essentials
The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”
-- Jean Guitton

#Tolerance #Opinion #Accepting

We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.
The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

Jean Guitton famous quotes

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