Jacques Maritain Quotes

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.

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

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

It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

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.