Jacques Maritain Quotes

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

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.

What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.

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.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomena.