Heart Quote by Jacques Maritain

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with…

— Jacques Maritain

A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.

— Jacques Maritain

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it…

— Jacques Maritain

It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

— Jacques Maritain

The light of common sense is fundamentally the same light as that of science, that is to say, the natural light of the intellect.…

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Jacques Maritain