Jacques Maritain Quotes

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.

Jacques Maritain

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• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

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• But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.

  

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• Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

  

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• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

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• I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

  

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

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• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  

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• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

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• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

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• Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

  

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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

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• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

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• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

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• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

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• The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.

  

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• To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, 'You may live with me, but don't become my follower.' 'Whom, then, shall I follow?' 'No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.'

  

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• I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

  

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• I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  

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• Your twisting is done – you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

  

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• 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.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Truth
  • Desire