Jacques Maritain

"The supernatural light of the spirit is the only night from which the spirit can emerge alive."

"The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge."

"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."

"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 whi…"

"Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human p…"

"We have just seen that perfection and contemplation imply each other by reason of love which is at once the essence of perfecton and “the source, the execize and the end” of contemplation. One can als…"

"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."

"A community of free men cannot exist if its spiritual base is not solely law."