Jacques Maritain Quotes on Love
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 love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jacques Maritain:
“The thirst for poetry is one of the most spiritual thirsts in the human being.”
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Attributed to Jacques Maritain:
“The philosopher is the friend of being.”
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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.”
The Range of Reason(1952) [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons] | p. 109. -
“In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.”
True Humanism(1938) | p. xv. -
“For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.”
The Peasant of the Garonne(1968) | p 9.