Etienne Gilson Quotes
Etienne Gilson was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy, the leading figure of twentieth-century neo-Thomism. He devoted his career to recovering medieval philosophy as a serious philosophical interlocutor and not merely as a historical curiosity, producing monographs on Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Bernard of Clairvaux. The quotes below are attributed to Etienne Gilson, organized by topic.
Etienne Gilson on God
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Attributed to Etienne Gilson:
“Faith without reason is fanaticism; reason without faith is rationalism.”
Etienne Gilson on Knowledge
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Attributed to Etienne Gilson:
“Philosophy always buries its undertakers.”
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Attributed to Etienne Gilson:
“An unmetaphysical age is at one and the same time both incompetent in metaphysics and in need of metaphysics.”
Etienne Gilson on Truth
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Attributed to Etienne Gilson:
“There are not two truths, scientific and theological. There is but one truth.”
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Attributed to Etienne Gilson:
“The philosophy of being is open and accommodates the entirety of reality.”