Жак Маритен цитаты

„Я хорошо знаю, что подобен всем другим, я не лучше других и не более ценен, нежели они; я лишь маленький завиток пены на гребне волны, уходящей в мгновение ока в безбрежность природы и человечества.“

„Человек есть одновременно и «человек действующий», и «человек разумный». И прежде чем быть «человеком разумным», чтобы стать им, он должен быть «человеком действующим».“

„Свобода должна быть завоевана через последовательное устранение различных форм порабощения.“

„Каким бы великодушным ни был атеист, атеизм приводит к окаменению глубинных слоев субстанции любви; его любовь к людям есть насильственное требование их блага, которое возникает прежде всего как разрушительная сила.“

„Что же до подлинного откровения, взыскуемого поэзией, - откровения в произведении искусства духовных глубин человеческой субъективности,пробужденной для мира интуитивной эмоцией, - то оно становится вестью от объективного случая (от таинственных интенций, приписываемых случайности, и от легиона темных сил, в которых человек сопричащается миру), и весть эта передается через автоматическое письмо.
Путем деструкции человек, подобно мифической птице Фениксу, в конце концов преобразится в свет и вернет себе все могущество, каким он только способен был наделить Бога. Таким
образом, творческое свершение, составляющее истинную славу художника, подменяется исканием всемогущества человеческого субъекта.“

“What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.”

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Источник: творческая интуиция в поэзии

Жак Маритен: Цитаты на английском языке

“The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.”

Источник: Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 4.

“The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.”

Источник: Existence & the Existent

“In so far as we are individuals, each of us is a fragment of a species, a part of this universe, a single dot in the immense network of forces and influences, cosmic, ethnic, historic, whose laws we obey. We are subject to the determination of the physical world. But each man is also a person, he is not subject to the stars and atoms; for he subsists entirely with the very subsistence of his spiritual soul, and the latter is in him a principle of creative unity, of independence and of freedom.”

Источник: An Introduction to Philosophy

“Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.”

Scholasticism and Politics (1940)

“Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.”

The Rights of Man (1945). London: Geoffrey Bles, pp. 7–8.

“With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.”

Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 117.

“The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.”

Jacques Maritain книга The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952), p. 113.

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

Man and the State (1951), p. 179.

“Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.”

True Humanism (1938), p. xv.

“In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.”

Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 262.

“To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.”

An Essay on Christian Philosophy (1955), p. 51.

“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.”

Freedom in the Modern World, (1933, Notre Dame Edition), p. 6.

“Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomena.”

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p 9.

“Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.”

Jacques Maritain книга The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 106.

“When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.”

Integral Humanism, (1936, Notre Dame Edition), p. 154.

“It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.”

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), pp. 147-148.

“It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.”

Science and Wisdom (1954), p. 109.

“Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.”

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 89.

“It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… …Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist… …she certainly did not envelop him in her love.”

Christianity and Democracy (1943), p. 49.

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

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 91.

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

Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 77.

“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.”

Ransoming the Time (1941), p. 288.

“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.”

“Action: the Perfection of Human Life,” Sewanee Review, LVI (Winter, 1948), pp. 3-4.

“In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.”

The Peasant of the Garonne (1968), p. 94.

“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 Rights of Man and Natural Law (1943), p. 2.

“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.”

An Essay on Christian Philosophy (1955), p. 17.

“The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.”

Theonas: Conversations of a Sage (1921). Sheed & Ward, 1933, p. 9.

“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 книга The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason (1952), p. 137.

“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

The Twilight of Civilization (1939). London: Sheed & Ward, 1946, p. 41.