Top 60 Jacques Maritain Quotes (2024 Update)
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Jacques Maritain Quote: “Authentic Christianity has a horror of the pessimism of inertia. It is pessimist, profoundly pessimist in the sense that it knows that the creature comes from nothingness, and that all that issues from nothing essentially tends of itself to return to nothing: but it’s optimism is incomparably deeper than it’s pessimism; for it knows that the creature comes from God, and all that comes from God tends to return to Him.”

51. “Authentic Christianity has a horror of the pessimism of inertia. It is pessimist, profoundly pessimist in the sense that it knows that the creature comes from nothingness, and that all that issues from nothing essentially tends of itself to return to nothing: but it’s optimism is incomparably deeper than it’s pessimism; for it knows that the creature comes from God, and all that comes from God tends to return to Him.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.”

52. “Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.”

— Jacques Maritain

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

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

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.”

54. “It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

55. “What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit.”

56. “It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.”

57. “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

Jacques Maritain Quote: “There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.”

58. “There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

59. “To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “There is no question that the language of “felt thought” must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.”

60. “There is no question that the language of “felt thought” must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “The definition of Christian art is to be found in its subject and its spirit. Everything, sacred and profane, belongs to it. God does not ask for “religious” art or “Catholic” art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth.”

61. “The definition of Christian art is to be found in its subject and its spirit. Everything, sacred and profane, belongs to it. God does not ask for “religious” art or “Catholic” art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth.”

— Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain Quote: “If at the present day it has found a warm welcome among certain circles in Europe, it is because all those who hope to derive from humanitarianism a moral code of human kindness for the acceptance of an atheistic society are already implicitly Buddhists.”

62. “If at the present day it has found a warm welcome among certain circles in Europe, it is because all those who hope to derive from humanitarianism a moral code of human kindness for the acceptance of an atheistic society are already implicitly Buddhists.”

— Jacques Maritain

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