Jacques Maritain Quotes

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

Jacques Maritain

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• Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • America
  • Political
  • City

• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• I want to be acting until the day I die!

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Die
  • Day
  • Acting

• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • World
  • Different
  • Words

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Politics

• To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Way
  • Afghanistan
  • Camel

• We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • You
  • Know

• I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Done
  • Single
  • Journey

• When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Together
  • Relationship

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Business
  • Leader
  • Research

• When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Up
  • She

• Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

  

  Colin Tudge
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Religious

• I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Up
  • Personality

• Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Why
  • Power
  • Light

• To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

  

  Ernst Cassirer
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Adventure

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

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Religious