"What makes man most unhappy is to be……" — Jacques Maritain
"What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know."
—
Jacques Maritain
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
29 Quotes by Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain has 29 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is…
-
At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world…
-
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
-
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means,…
-
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ…
-
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
-
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to…
-
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence…
-
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and…
-
God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all…
-
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable…
-
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single…
See all 29 quotes by Jacques Maritain »
More Deprived Quotes
This quote is filed under Deprived Quotes,
one of 297 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
— Luis Barragan
-
Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
-
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
— Gregory Bateson
-
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would…
— Anne Bronte
-
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried…
— Stokely Carmichael
-
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught…
— Jimmy Carter
-
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
— Marie Antoinette
-
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become…
— Thomas Aquinas
-
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of…
— Jimmy Carter
-
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.
— John Henry Cox
-
Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
— Frantz Fanon
See all 297 Deprived Quotes »