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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
— Jacques Maritain
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
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
— Jacques Maritain
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.
— Jacques Maritain
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
— Jacques Maritain
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
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
— Jacques Maritain
There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
— Jacques Maritain
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
— Jacques Maritain
To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.
— Jacques Maritain
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
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
— Jacques Maritain
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
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
To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
— Jacques Maritain
Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
— Jacques Maritain
God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
— Jacques Maritain
Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.
— Jacques Maritain
The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
— Jacques Maritain
Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.
— Jacques Maritain
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.
— Jacques Maritain
We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve
— Jacques Maritain
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
Some truths are seen better through tears.
— Jacques Maritain
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.
— Jacques Maritain
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
— Jacques Maritain
If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?
— Jacques Maritain
Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.
— Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
— Jacques Maritain
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.
— Jacques Maritain
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
— Jacques Maritain
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence
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It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.
— Jacques Maritain
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
Power without authority is tyranny.
— Jacques Maritain