Quotes from book

The Range of Reason

“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.”

Jacques Maritain book The Range of Reason

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

“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.”

Jacques Maritain book The Range of Reason

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

“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.”

Jacques Maritain book The Range of Reason

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

“The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.”

Jacques Maritain book The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952), p. 217.

“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.