Jacques Maritain citáty
Jacques Maritain
Dátum narodenia: 18. november 1882
Dátum úmrtia: 28. apríl 1973
Jacques Maritain bol francúzsky filozof, popredný predstaviteľ neotomistickej filozofie. Tvorca integrálneho humanizmu, ktorému ide o zmenu civilizácie združením ľudí na základe náboženských hodnôt. Odstrániť treba tak kapitalizmus, ako aj socializmus.
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„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
„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 sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.“
— Jacques Maritain, An Introduction to Philosophy
„Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.“
— Jacques Maritain
Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 262.
„Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.“
— Jacques Maritain
Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 117.
„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.
„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.
„Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.“
— Jacques Maritain
Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 154.
„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.
„It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.“
— Jacques Maritain
Science and Wisdom (1954), p. 109.
„Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.“
— Jacques Maritain
Christianity and Democracy (1943), p. 49.
„To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.“
— Jacques Maritain
Freedom in the Modern World, (1933, Notre Dame Edition), p. 6.
„It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"…... Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist...... she certainly did not envelop him in her love.“
— Jacques Maritain
The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 91.
