Arrangements Quote by Etienne 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 of the universe”

Etienne Gilson

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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…

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“When man subverted order he did a great deal more than merely fall away from the rationality of his nature, diminish his own humanity,…

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“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes…

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“As long as one makes some kind of conscious state, whether a “passive sensation” or an “apprehended”, come before reality, one will remain more…

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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…

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Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

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But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and…

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