Jacques Maritain Zitate

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“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.”

“The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.”

“There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.”

“The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.”

“A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.”

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