William of Auvergne Quotes on Truth
William of Auvergne was a French scholastic theologian and bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, and one of the first major Latin Christian thinkers to engage seriously with the new Aristotelian and Arabic philosophical material then arriving in the schools of Paris. This page collects quotes attributed to William of Auvergne on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to William of Auvergne:
“Philosophy must serve theology, but theology owes philosophy honest debate.”
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Attributed to William of Auvergne:
“What we have from the Arabs in philosophy must be weighed by Christian reason.”
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Attributed to William of Auvergne:
“God is being itself; everything else is being by participation.”
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Attributed to William of Auvergne:
“The soul knows itself by its own reflexive light.”
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Attributed to William of Auvergne:
“The order of the universe is the visible argument for its Creator.”