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Jacques Maritain on Wedding

1882–1973 France

← All quotes by Jacques Maritain

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To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.

The Range of Reason (1952)

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

True Humanism (1938)

Contrary to Pascal's saying, we don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Reflections on America‎ (1958)

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Maritain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.