Jacques Maritain Quotes
A French Catholic philosopher.
(1882 - 1973)
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A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
[Concentration]
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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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.
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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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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.
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We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
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