Jacques Maritain Quotes

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain

Gratitude, Courtesy, Exquisite

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Jacques Maritain

Single, Idea, Labor

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
Jacques Maritain

Love, Person, Sometimes

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques Maritain

Love, Men, Worth

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
Jacques Maritain

Courage, Forward, Midst

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

Thinking, Sometimes, Serious

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

Everything, America, Storm

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

Love, Poetry, Together

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

Great, Strength, America

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.
Jacques Maritain

Sleep, Single, Together

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 18, 1882

Died: April 28, 1973

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