Jacques Maritain Quotes on God
Jacques Maritain was a French Catholic philosopher and one of the architects of the twentieth-century revival of Thomism. This page collects quotes attributed to Jacques Maritain on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“In so far as we are individuals, each of us is a fragment of a species, a part of this universe, a single dot in the immense network of forces and influences, cosmic, ethnic, historic, whose laws we obey. We are subject to the determination of the physical world. But each man is also a person, he is not subject to the stars and atoms; for he subsists entirely with the very subsistence of his spiritual soul, and the latter is in him a principle of creative unity, of independence and of freedom.”
Scholasticism and Politics (1940) -
“Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.”
Theonas: Conversations of a Sage(1921) [Sheed & Ward, 1933] | p. 9. -
“The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.”
Theonas: Conversations of a Sage(1921) [Sheed & Ward, 1933] | p. 77. -
“Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.”
Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition) | p. 154. -
“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.”
An Essay on Christian Philosophy(1955) | p. 17.