Jacques Maritain Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Desire, Heroism

  "True Humanism". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. xi), 1938.

• 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

  Men, Intellectual, Desire

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press

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

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Blood, Imagination

  Quoted in Robert Fitzgerald (ed) Enlarging the Change (1985).

• The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

  Jacques Maritain

  Desire, Conformity, Ends

  "Action: the Perfection of Human Life" by Jacques Maritain, Sewanee Review, LV (pp. 3-4), 1948.

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