Etienne Gilson Quotes

#1. Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.

Etienne Gilson

#2. 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 which is, down to the humblest form of existence, exhibits the inseparable privileges of being, which are truth, goodness, and beauty.

Etienne Gilson

#3. Persons, who knows that, that they will not be able to rest along the way when they took a path, will never get tired.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#4. There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

Kurt Braunohler

#5. When Jess had Tanzie, young and daft as she had been, she'd had enough wisdom to know she was going to tell her how much she loved her every day. She would hug her and wipe her tears and flop with her on the sofa with their legs entwined like spaghetti. She would cocoon her in love.

Jojo Moyes

#6. 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 to perceive it again

Etienne Gilson

#7. we can only re-establish metaphysics today by returning to realism pure and simple.

Etienne Gilson

#8. I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

Julie Andrews

#9. 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

#10. It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God.

Etienne Gilson

#11. 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.

Etienne Gilson

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

Etienne Gilson

#13. If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

Halle Berry

#14. Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Etienne Gilson

#15. The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.

Etienne Gilson

#16. all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it.

Etienne Gilson

#17. Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

Eldridge Cleaver

#18. We try to, when you come to Google, fulfill that need that you have as quickly as possible.

Larry Page

#19. As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

Andie MacDowell

#20. 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

#21. The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

Brian Tracy

#22. You can't win, Darth. Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

George Lucas

#23. If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.

Etienne Gilson

#24. As Marion Montgomery, summarizing Etienne Gilson, puts it, "We know, and know that we know, that life and meaning have real existence, though science cannot substantiate that reality because the reality at issue lies in a dimension of immateriality."4

Donald T. Williams

#25. He(E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that the best one can do is to recognize it when it is there.

Etienne Gilson

#26. Charles Fort was erected in 1667 by the Duke of Ormonde. It is said to be haunted by a ghost known as the "White Lady,

St John D. Seymour