"The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the……" — Jacques Maritain
"The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth."
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Jacques Maritain
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29 Quotes by Jacques Maritain
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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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