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Jacques Maritain
French philosopher
Jacques Maritainwas a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906.
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About the Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritainwas a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he was agnostic before converting to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive Thomas Aquinas for modern times, and was influential in the development and drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pope Paul VI presented his “Message to Men of Thought and of Science” at the close of Vatican II to Maritain, his long-time friend and mentor. The same pope had seriously considered making him a lay cardinal, but Maritain rejected it. Maritain’s interest and works spanned many aspects of philosophy, including aesthetics, political theory, philosophy of science, metaphysics, the nature of education, liturgy and ecclesiology.
10 Quotes by Jacques Maritain
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We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques MaritainFrench philosopher
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Jacques MaritainFrench philosopher
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques MaritainFrench philosopher
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
Jacques MaritainFrench philosopher
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques MaritainFrench philosopher
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A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
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I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Jacques MaritainFrench philosopher