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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Citáty Jacques Maritain
„To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.“
— Jacques Maritain
The Range of Reason (1952), p. 109.
„A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.“
— Jacques Maritain
On the Use of Philosophy (1961), p. 5.
„The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.“
— Jacques Maritain
Science and Wisdom (1954), p. 207.
„There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.“
— Jacques Maritain
Ransoming the Time (1941), p. 14.
„It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.“
— Jacques Maritain
Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 116.
„A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law.“
— Jacques Maritain
Christianity and Democracy (1943), p. 43.
„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
The Twilight of Civilization (1939). London: Sheed & Ward, 1946, p. 41.
„Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.“
— Jacques Maritain
Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 9.
„To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.“
— Jacques Maritain
An Essay on Christian Philosophy (1955), p. 17.
„In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.“
— Jacques Maritain
The Rights of Man and Natural Law (1943), p. 2.
„The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.“
— Jacques Maritain
The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 94.
„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
“Action: the Perfection of Human Life,” Sewanee Review, LVI (Winter, 1948), pp. 3-4.