Jacques Maritain: Quotes about love

Jacques Maritain was French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Jacques Maritain: 74 quotes4 likes

“In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.”

Jacques Maritain

True Humanism (1938), p. xv.

“For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.”

Jacques Maritain

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p 9.

“It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… …Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist… …she certainly did not envelop him in her love.”

Jacques Maritain

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 91.

“To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

Jacques Maritain book The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952), p. 109.