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Jacques Maritain quotes: Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

Jacques Maritain quotes: A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Maritain quotes: We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

Jacques Maritain quotes: A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

Jacques Maritain quotes: There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

Jacques Maritain quotes: There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

Jacques Maritain quotes: To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

Jacques Maritain quotes: What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

Jacques Maritain quotes: A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

Jacques Maritain quotes: In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.

Jacques Maritain quotes: To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

Jacques Maritain quotes: God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Jacques Maritain quotes: There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.

Jacques Maritain quotes: We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Jacques Maritain quotes: To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Some truths are seen better through tears.

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

Jacques Maritain quotes: In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Jacques Maritain quotes: If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

Jacques Maritain quotes: Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence even mental.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence
even mental.

Jacques Maritain quotes: It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

Jacques Maritain quotes: The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

Jacques Maritain quotes: Power without authority is tyranny.

Power without authority is tyranny.