Jacques Maritain: Philosopher

Jacques Maritain was French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on philosopher.

Jacques Maritain: 74 quotes4 likes

“The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.”

Jacques Maritain

Source: Existence & the Existent

“Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.”

Jacques Maritain

Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 262.

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

Jacques Maritain

Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 77.

“To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.”

Jacques Maritain

An Essay on Christian Philosophy (1955), p. 17.

“The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.”

Jacques Maritain

Science and Wisdom (1954), p. 207.

“A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.”

Jacques Maritain

On the Use of Philosophy (1961), p. 5.