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 ill at ease in a world of existences, because to exist is an act, not a thing.
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. - Etienne Gilson
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
- Etienne Gilson
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 is w… - Etienne Gilson
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 is w…
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 ill at ease in a world of… - Etienne 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 and ill at ease in a world of…
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
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
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors subst… - 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 subst…
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question. - Etienne Gilson
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.
Philosophy always buries its undertakers. - Etienne Gilson
Philosophy always buries its undertakers.
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 as beautiful. For all that whic… - Etienne 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 them as beautiful. For all that whic…
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 us want … - 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 makes us want …
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