The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process Jacques Maritain More Quotes by Jacques Maritain More Quotes From Jacques Maritain With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist. Jacques Maritain sincerity saint atheist There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. Jacques Maritain heroism desire men To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love. Jacques Maritain saint and-love war A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude. Jacques Maritain gratitude christian men The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success. Jacques Maritain please artist doe There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God. Jacques Maritain fighting atheist challenges God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love. Jacques Maritain our-love love-is beauty In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block. Jacques Maritain block philosophy hands The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs. Jacques Maritain creativity exercise art Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind. Jacques Maritain intellectual mind art 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 ocean sea america The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth. Jacques Maritain spiritual doe philosophy The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper. Jacques Maritain creative soul song Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum. Jacques Maritain minimum vain men It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is. Jacques Maritain clay artist fishing A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. Jacques Maritain courage motivational inspirational Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Jacques Maritain atheism religious commitment The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects. Jacques Maritain tolerate patriotism country At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved. Jacques Maritain hopeless history world Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community. Jacques Maritain animal men mean
