List of Jacques Maritain Quotes

A Great Philosopher In The Wrong Is Like A Beacon On The Reefs Which Says To Seamen: Steer Clear Of Me.

In Loving Things And The Being In Them Man Should Rather Draw Things Up To The Human Level Than Reduce Humanity To Their Measure.

The Poet Knows Himself Only On The Condition That Things Resound In Him, And That In Him, At A Single Awakening, They And He Come Forth Together Out Of Sleep.

That Is Why I Think, In Defiance Of Plato, That There Is At Once Error And Vulgarity In Saying That Poetry Is A Lie, Except In The Sense That Cocteau Wrote One Day: I Am A Lie Who Always Tells The Truth. The Only Poetry Which Lies Purely And Simply Is Academic, Pseudo-classical, Conceptually Repetitive Poetry, And It Is Not Poetry.

The Light Of Common Sense Is Fundamentally The Same Light As That Of Science, That Is To Say, The Natural Light Of The Intellect. But In Common Sense This Light Does Not Return Upon Itself By Critical Reflection, And Is Not Perfected By What We Shall Learn To Know As A Scientific Habit.

The Act Of Philosophizing Involves The Character Of The Philosopher.

When One's Function Is To Teach The Loftiest Wisdom, It Is Difficult To Resist The Temptation To Believe That Until You Have Spoken, Nothing Has Been Said.

Art Is A Creative Effort Of Which The Wellsprings Lie In The Spirit, And Which Brings Us At Once The Most Intimate Self Of The Artist And The Secret Concurrences Which He Has Perceived In Things By Means Of A Vision Or Intuition All His Own, And Not To Be Expressed In Ideas And In Words-expressible Only In The Work Of Art.

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 Love For Them. As For Poor John The Baptist... ...she Certainly Did Not Envelop Him In Her Love.

Poetry Proceeds From The Totality Of Man, Sense, Imagination, Intellect, Love, Desire, Instinct, Blood And Spirit Together.

There Is No Question That The Language Of "felt Thought" Must Be Quarried From Our Personal Depths. Like The Best Gold, It Does Not Lie On The Surface.

Whereas The Intelligence Of God Is Both The Cause And The Measure Of The Truth Of Things, Things Are Both The Cause And The Measure Of The Truth Of Our Intelligence.