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.
Citáty Jacques Maritain
„What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.“
Zdroj: 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.“
Zdroj: An Introduction to Philosophy
„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, kniha The Range of Reason
The Range of Reason (1952). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 106.
„The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.“
Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 77.
„In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.“
The Rights of Man and Natural Law (1943), p. 2.
„Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.“
Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 117.
„The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.“
Man and the State (1951), p. 179.
„To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.“
Freedom in the Modern World, (1933, Notre Dame Edition), p. 6.
„Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.“
Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 154.
„Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.“
Christianity and Democracy (1943), p. 49.
„To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.“
— Jacques Maritain, kniha The Range of Reason
The Range of Reason (1952), p. 109.
„Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.“
Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 262.
