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Etienne Gilson Quotes on Knowledge

Etienne Gilson was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy, the leading figure of twentieth-century neo-Thomism. This page collects quotes attributed to Etienne Gilson on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Etienne Gilson:

    “Philosophy always buries its undertakers.”

  • Attributed to Etienne Gilson:

    “An unmetaphysical age is at one and the same time both incompetent in metaphysics and in need of metaphysics.”

  • Attributed to Etienne Gilson:

    “Faith without reason is fanaticism; reason without faith is rationalism.”

  • Attributed to Etienne Gilson:

    “There are not two truths, scientific and theological. There is but one truth.”