• Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher 1909-1943
  

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1. humanism
2. thinking
3. equality
4. infinite
5. himself
6. without

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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. by : Simone Weil

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