It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist. Jacques Maritain More Quotes by Jacques Maritain More Quotes From Jacques Maritain Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. Jacques Maritain atheistreligiousfaith Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude. Jacques Maritain emptinessfasterneeds Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain gratitudethankfulthank-you God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth Jacques Maritain catholicreligiousart We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve Jacques Maritain needs If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true . Jacques Maritain being-truepoliticalphilosophy The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process Jacques Maritain aim-of-educationspiritualcivilization Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. Jacques Maritain faithlove-ismen The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men. Jacques Maritain takenwishmen Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself. Jacques Maritain dreammenart Some truths are seen better through tears. Jacques Maritain tears Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it. Jacques Maritain inspirationminddoe Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization. Jacques Maritain sacrificetechnologycivilization Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself. Jacques Maritain westernsourcereligious Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite. Jacques Maritain intellectualdesiremen To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs. Jacques Maritain heartrunningmen The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy. Jacques Maritain moderndemocracytragedy There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. Jacques Maritain poetroomsworld A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. Jacques Maritain businessscienceideas Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion. Jacques Maritain mensciencemean
