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“Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le coeur sensible”

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“Les deux concepts de Souveraineté et d'Absolutisme ont été forgés sur la même enclume. Ils doivent être ensemble mis au rebut.”

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L'Homme et l'État, 1953

“J'ai dû commencer par la controverse, elle m'ennuie de plus en plus. Je sais les erreurs qui ravagent le monde moderne, et qu'il n'a de grand que sa douleur, mais je respecte cette douleur; je vois partout des vérités captives, quel ordre de la Merci se lèvera pour les racheter? Notre affaire est de chercher le positif en toutes choses, d'user du vrai moins pour frapper que pour guérir. Il y a si peu d'amour dans le monde, les cœurs sont si froids, si gelés, même chez ceux qui ont raison, les seuls qui pourraient aider les autres. Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le cœur doux. Sans compter les esprits mous au cœur sec, le monde n'est presque fait que d'esprits durs au cœur sec et de cœurs doux à l'esprit mou.”

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Réponse à Jean Cocteau

Jacques Maritain: Citations en anglais

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

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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.”

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Source: Existence & the Existent

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

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Source: An Introduction to Philosophy

“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.”

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Scholasticism and Politics (1940)

“Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.”

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The Rights of Man (1945). London: Geoffrey Bles, pp. 7–8.

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

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

“With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.”

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Jacques Maritain livre The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952), p. 113.

“The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.”

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Man and the State (1951), p. 179.

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

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True Humanism (1938), p. xv.

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

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

“In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.”

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An Essay on Christian Philosophy (1955), p. 51.

“To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.”

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Freedom in the Modern World, (1933, Notre Dame Edition), p. 6.

“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.”

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

“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 contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomena.”

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Jacques Maritain livre The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 106.

“Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.”

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Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 154.

“When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.”

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The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), pp. 147-148.

“It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.”

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Science and Wisdom (1954), p. 109.

“It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.”

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The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 89.

“Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.”

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Christianity and Democracy (1943), p. 49.

“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.”

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

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

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

“The supernatural light of the spirit is the only night from which the spirit can emerge alive.”

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Ransoming the Time (1941), p. 288.

“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.”

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“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.”

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

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

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.”

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Jacques Maritain livre The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952), p. 137.

“If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true.”

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The Twilight of Civilization (1939). London: Sheed & Ward, 1946, p. 41.

“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

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True Humanism (1938), p. xi.

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