Consciousness Quote by Étienne Gilson

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

— Etienne Gilson

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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