“all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it.” — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“we can only re-establish metaphysics today by returning to realism pure and simple.” — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“He(E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“As long as one makes some kind of conscious state, whether a “passive sensation” or an “apprehended”, come before reality, one will… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“If pure philosophy took any of its ideas from Christian revelation, if anything in the Bible and the Gospel has passed into… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“But if one decides to start with Descartes and finish with Aristotle, and to employ an idealist method while shamelessly making use… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“When man subverted order he did a great deal more than merely fall away from the rationality of his nature, diminish his… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Etienne Gilson Copy Share
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
“The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share
Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share
“When man subverted order he did a great deal more than merely fall away from the rationality of his nature, diminish his own humanity,… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share
“As long as one makes some kind of conscious state, whether a “passive sensation” or an “apprehended”, come before reality, one will remain more… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share
“But if one decides to start with Descartes and finish with Aristotle, and to employ an idealist method while shamelessly making use of a… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
“Pure sensism leads inevitably to universal doubt; if reality is in the end reducible to sensible appearance, then, since this is in a state… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
“If pure philosophy took any of its ideas from Christian revelation, if anything in the Bible and the Gospel has passed into metaphysics, if,… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share
