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“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.

“In so far as we are individuals, each of us is a fragment of a species, a part of this universe, a single dot in the immense network of forces and influences, cosmic, ethnic, historic, whose laws we obey. We are subject to the determination of the physical world. But each man is also a person, he is not subject to the stars and atoms; for he subsists entirely with the very subsistence of his spiritual soul, and the latter is in him a principle of creative unity, of independence and of freedom.”

Jacques Maritain

Scholasticism and Politics (1940)

“Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.”

Jacques Maritain

Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 117.

“In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.”

Jacques Maritain

The Rights of Man and Natural Law (1943), p. 2.

“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.

“It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.”

Jacques Maritain

Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 116.