Jacques Maritain Quotes

French philosopher (1882–1973)

Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher, and was one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

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.

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

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

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

Jacques Maritain Quotes

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