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Jacques Maritain Quotes

«Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy»
«We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.»
Author: Jacques Maritain | About: Quality | Keywords: defects
«The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.»
«Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.»
Author: Jacques Maritain | About: Poetry | Keywords: Blood and, proceeds, totality
«The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people»
Author: Jacques Maritain | About: America and Americans | Keywords: admirable
«Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence»
«A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things»
Author: Jacques Maritain | About: Courage | Keywords: flees
«A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences»
Author: Jacques Maritain | About: Ideas
«Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.»
«I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.»