In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
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… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect.… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie,… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share
