Étienne Gilson: Quotes about reality

Étienne Gilson was French historian and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on reality.

Étienne Gilson: 44 quotes 3 likes

“Reality can be grasped at levels of different depths. It is immediately given to us in a kind of block form, which is simply the "apprehended reality."”

Étienne Gilson

Methodical Realism

Reality

“Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being.”

Étienne Gilson

Methodical Realism

Reality

“If there is a single initial error at the root of all the difficulties philosophy is involved in, it can only be the one Descartes committed when he decreed, a priori, that the method of one of the sciences of reality was valid for the whole of reality.</i”

Étienne Gilson

Methodical Realism

Error , Reality , Science

“Up to Descartes' time, and particularly during the Middle Ages, it had always been agreed that philosophy consisted in a transposition of reality into conceptual terms”

Étienne Gilson

Methodical Realism

Age , Reality , Time