The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the… — 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
What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — 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
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. — 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
Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
