Jacques Maritain Quotes

"A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things."
- Jacques Maritain
(Related: Courage, Man)

"A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences."
- Jacques Maritain
(Related: Idea, Infinity, Labor, Right)

"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
(Related: Americans, Thinking)

"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
- Jacques Maritain
(Related: Intelligence, Love, Men, Christianity, Worth)

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
- Jacques Maritain
(Related: Gratitude, Courtesy)

"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people."
- Jacques Maritain
(Related: People, Strength, America, American)

"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
(Related: America, First, Ocean, Sea, Will)

"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."
- Jacques Maritain
(Related: Love, Reason)

"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
(Related: Sleep)