"God does not ask for 'religious' art or……" — Jacques Maritain
"God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth"
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Jacques Maritain
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29 Quotes by Jacques Maritain
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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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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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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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