99 Quotes by Jacques Maritain

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

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.

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

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

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.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

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.

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.