"A single idea, if it is right, saves……" — Jacques Maritain
"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."
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29 Quotes by Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain has 29 quotes on this site.
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is…
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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world…
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Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means,…
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A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ…
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to…
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Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence…
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The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and…
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God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all…
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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…
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single…
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There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best…
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More Experiences Quotes
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
— Sai Baba
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
— Christian Bale
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My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But…
— Drew Barrymore
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
— Gregory Bateson
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called…
— Alfred Adler
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You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
— Stella Adler
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