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Page 1 of 1Jacques Maritain
November 18, 1882 - April 28, 1973
Nationality: French
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: French Philosopher
|  Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious. | | A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things. Topics: Courage | | Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. | | Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. Topics: Christianity | | The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. | | A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. | | I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. | | The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. | | We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. | | Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. |
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