Emile Boutroux Quotes on God
Emile Boutroux was a French philosopher whose work in the philosophy of science and religion shaped a generation of French and American thinkers, including his student Henri Bergson. This page collects quotes attributed to Emile Boutroux on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Emile Boutroux:
“Religion and science are not enemies; they have different domains.”
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“Mysticism consists, according to a beautiful definition I find in Plotinus ], in seeing with closed eyes [...] in seeing with the eyes of the soul , while the eyes of the body are closed. The essential phenomenon of mysticism is what is called ecstasy , a state in which, with all communication with the external world interrupted, the soul has the sense of communicating with an internal object, which is the infinite being, God. ( La psicologia del misticismo , pp. 58-59)”
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“Above all, [Félix Ravaisson] was a writer. He expressed himself in broad, flexible, simple and wise phrases, elegant and solid with an air of abandon, and the logical relationships between ideas and the aesthetic harmony that coordinates them and the creative action that brings forth the details, conditions and elements from the whole and from the beginning. His style is the very soul grasped in his inner life and in the secret movement through which it gives itself and spreads. ( La filosofia di F. Ravaisson , p. 116)”
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“[...] the history of philosophy deals with the doctrines conceived by philosophers, not philosophy in general in its entirety, nor the psychological evolution of each thinker in particular; therefore, its essential task, to which all others are subordinate, consists in penetrating and understanding doctrines, explaining them as well as possible, as the author himself would do, and presenting them in accordance with the spirit and, to a certain extent, the style of their author. (Ch. I, pp. 7-8)”
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