Jacques Maritain Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: November 18, 1882 - April 28, 1973
Birthday: November 18
Death: April 28
Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.
source: Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press
topic: Men, Intellectual, Desire, Physical Things
