Jacques Maritain Quotes

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

Jacques Maritain

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• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Technology

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Best

• As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Voice
  • Tools

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Husband

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• Western man is schizophrenic.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Western
  • Schizophrenic

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • See
  • Kissing

• I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Feelings
  • Weird

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Listen

• Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Give
  • Mother`s
  • Guidance

• 'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.

  

  Emily Giffin
  • Men

• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Importance

• The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • World

• I want to democratize business news.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Business

• I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Book

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

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Men