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Jacques Maritain Quotes on Truth

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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Jacques Maritain:

    “Distinguish in order to unite.”

  • Attributed to Jacques Maritain:

    “The thirst for poetry is one of the most spiritual thirsts in the human being.”

  • Attributed to Jacques Maritain:

    “The philosopher is the friend of being.”

  • “If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .”

    The Twilight of Civilization (1939). London: Sheed & Ward, 1946, p. 41.