Jacques Maritain

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#idea #infinity #labor #right #saves

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#love #person #qualities #reason #sometimes

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#desire #imagination #instinct #intellect #love

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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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. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

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