Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jean Guitton (French Catholic Philosopher)

Jean Guitton (1901–99) was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. His works discuss the agnostic confrontation between human faith and human logic. A member of the Académie française since 1961, he was a close friend of Pope Paul VI.

Born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, Guitton studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1920. His principal religious and intellectual influence was from a blind priest, François Aimé Pouget (1666–1723.) He finished his philosophical studies in the early 1920s and later became a professor in many French universities.

During World War II, Guitton was made a war prisoner by the Nazis. In the year 1954, he earned a literary award from the Académie française. From 1955–68, he continued his works as a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne.

Guitton wrote around fifty books, including Mon testament philosophique (1997, ‘My Philosophical Testament,’) La Pensée moderne et le catholicisme (1934–50, ‘Modern Thought and Catholicism,’) Critique de la critique (1937, ‘Criticism of criticism,’) Le Problème de Jésus (1946, ‘The Problem of Jesus,’) Dialogues avec Paul VI (1967, ‘Dialogues with Paul VI,’) and L’Évangile dans ma vie (1978, ‘The Gospel in My Life.’)

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

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

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