The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.
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“Action: the Perfection of Human Life,” Sewanee Review, LVI (Winter, 1948), pp. 3-4Jacques Maritain
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