For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word. — 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 nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual… — 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
