Quotes from Jacques Maritain
I do not know if Saul Alinsky knows God. But I assure you that God knows Saul Alinsky.
— Jacques Maritain
Fascism is socialism which has been clever enough to fool the vigilance of the church, as no other socialism has done.
— Jacques Maritain
God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.
— Jacques Maritain
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
— Jacques Maritain
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
— Jacques Maritain
If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?
— 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.
— Jacques Maritain
We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve.
— Jacques Maritain
There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.
— Jacques Maritain
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
— 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 seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
— Jacques Maritain
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
— Jacques Maritain