A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. Jacques Maritain More Quotes by Jacques Maritain More Quotes From Jacques Maritain 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 awakening together sleep Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. Jacques Maritain imagination men blood Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny. Jacques Maritain government power mean 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. Jacques Maritain common-sense light reflection A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. Jacques Maritain philosopher beacons clear In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure. Jacques Maritain levels humanity men 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. Jacques Maritain mean lying art The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher. Jacques Maritain philosopher character 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. Jacques Maritain temptation said believe To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being. Jacques Maritain intellectual essence We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. 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 you sometimes believe thinking We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. Jacques Maritain person reason sometimes love
