Believe Quote by Jacques Maritain

“Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.” quote by Jacques Maritain — Download Open image

“Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.”

Jacques Maritain

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Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

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That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie,…

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The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs…

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The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

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