"To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it……" — 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"
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Etienne Gilson
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9 Quotes by Etienne Gilson
Etienne Gilson has 9 quotes on this site.
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Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does…
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Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who…
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Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms…
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Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as…
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If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail…
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Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear,…
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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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More Arrangement Quotes
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
— Erik Erikson
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I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees…
— Tony La Russa
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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