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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Philosophy always buries its undertakers.
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History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
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