Jacques Maritain: Quotes about the truth

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

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

Jacques Maritain

Source: Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 4.

“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

“The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.”

Jacques Maritain

Source: An Introduction to Philosophy

“The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.”

Jacques Maritain

“Action: the Perfection of Human Life,” Sewanee Review, LVI (Winter, 1948), pp. 3-4.

“The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.”

Jacques Maritain

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 94.

“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

Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 9.

“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.