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• 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.

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  Art, Intellectual, Mind

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• A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• 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.

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  History, World, Hopeless

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

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  War, And Love, Saint

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• Power without authority is tyranny.

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  Authority, Tyranny

  Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press

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• The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

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  Men, Philosopher

  "Theonas: Conversations of a Sage". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 77), 1921.

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• 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.

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  Ocean, America, Sea

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• Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

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  Religious, Source, Western

  Jacques Maritain (1968). “Integral Humanism: Temporal and Spiritual Problems of a New Christendom”, New York : Scribner

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• 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.

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  Art, Creativity, Exercise

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Doe

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Existence and the Existent”, p.104, Paulist Press

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• 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.

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  Atheist, Saint, Sincerity

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• 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.

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  Men, Unhappy, Unhappiness

  "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• 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.

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  Running, Heart, Men

  Jacques Maritain (1955). “An essay on Christian philosophy”

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• 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.

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  Block, Philosophy, Hands

  Jacques Maritain (1955). “An essay on Christian philosophy”

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• Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

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  Men, Vain, Minimum

  Jacques Maritain (1973). “Integral humanism; temporal and spiritual problems of a new Christendom”

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• There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

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  World, Places In The World

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

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  Religious, Commitment, Atheism

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

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  Christian, Impossible

  Jacques Maritain (2013). “The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time”, p.89, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

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  Rights, Citizens, Modern

  Jacques Maritain (1968). “Challenges and renewals: selected readings”

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• 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.

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  Christian, Running, Gifts Of The Spirit

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• The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

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  Church, Hell, Efficacy

  Jacques Maritain (1997). “Untrammeled approaches”

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• 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.

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  Song, Creative, Soul

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “Challenges and renewals: selected readings”

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• Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

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  Opaque

  Jacques Maritain (1959). “Distinguish to Unite: Or, The Degrees of Knowledge”, New York, Scribner

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• 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.

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  Atheist, Fighting, Challenges

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• 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.

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  Artist, Fishing, Clay

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