Etienne Gilson Quotes

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• Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
• Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He…
• Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and…
• Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them…
• If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the…
• To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of…
• Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes…
• Philosophy always buries its undertakers.
• History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

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