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Jacques Maritain Quotes about Desire

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Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is

Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.

Jacques Maritain
Men, Intellectual, Desire
Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press

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

Jacques Maritain
Men, Desire, Heroism
"True Humanism". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. xi), 1938.

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.

Jacques Maritain
Desire, Conformity, Ends
"Action: the Perfection of Human Life" by Jacques Maritain, Sewanee Review, LV (pp. 3-4), 1948.

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