Consequence Quote by Etienne Gilson Download Open image “History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.” — Etienne Gilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consequence Great history Historical History Laboratory Philosophy of Mind Tests
History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas. — Elizabeth Coleman Copy Share Image
At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed to us… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness.… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think. — Dale Jamieson 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. Losing all… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
The world's problems are, by and large, human problems-the unavoidable consequence of egoic sleepwalking. If we care to look, all the signs are present… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
