Jacques Maritain Quotes about Philosophy

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If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .

If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .

Jacques Maritain

Philosophy, Political, Being True

"The Twilight of Civilization". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 41), 1939.

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

Spiritual, Philosophy, Doe

Jacques Maritain (2015). “Existence and the Existent”, p.104, Paulist Press

In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.

Jacques Maritain

Block, Philosophy, Hands

Jacques Maritain (1955). “An essay on Christian philosophy”