Jacques Maritain cytaty
Jacques Maritain
Data urodzenia: 18. Listopad 1882
Data zgonu: 28. Kwiecień 1973
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Jacques Maritain – francuski filozof, teolog i myśliciel polityczny.
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„What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.“
— Jacques Maritain, Degrees of Knowledge
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, Existence & the Existent
„The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.“
— Jacques Maritain, An Introduction to Philosophy
„Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.“
— Jacques Maritain
Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 154.
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„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.“
— Jacques Maritain
The Rights of Man (1945). London: Geoffrey Bles, pp. 7–8.
„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.“
— Jacques Maritain
The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), pp. 147-148.
„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
The Range of Reason (1952). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 106.