Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

- Jacques Maritain

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…

- Jacques Maritain

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demons…

- Jacques Maritain

It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gif…

- Jacques Maritain

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

- Jacques Maritain

Some truths are seen better through tears.

- Jacques Maritain

The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength o…

- Jacques Maritain

Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed u…

- Jacques Maritain

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

- Jacques Maritain