Maritain The Person Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen. — Louise Rennison

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. — Jacques Maritain

We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. — Jacques Maritain

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into. — Dave Brubeck

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee. — C.S. Lewis

Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us. — Delbert L. Stapley

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.' — Felicity Jones

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. — Gautama Buddha

Shut it." "My my, someone's grumpy today. Are you shedding the lining of your uterus? — Jewel E. Ann

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. — Agesilaus II

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary. — Frans De Waal

Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion. — Erich Fromm