Jacques Maritain Quotes on Mind
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 mind, 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 whole man must enter into philosophy, but only the intellect must do philosophy.”
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“Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.”
The Rights of Man (1945). London: Geoffrey Bles, pp. 7–8. -
“The supernatural light of the spirit is the only night from which the spirit can emerge alive.”
Ransoming the Time(1941) | p. 288. -
“Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.”
Christianity and Democracy(1943) | p. 49. -
“The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.”
The Range of Reason(1952) [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons] | p. 217.