We don’t love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. Jacques Maritain Read Quote
I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. Jacques Maritain Read Quote
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious. Jacques Maritain Read Quote
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. Jacques Maritain Read Quote
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. Jacques Maritain Read Quote
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. Jacques Maritain Read Quote
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. Jacques Maritain Read Quote
