Quotes from Etienne Gilson

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

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

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

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

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.

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