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“Par un extraordinaire renversement de l'histoire, le monde de l'Islam, dont les savants avaient favorisés de façon décisive la naissance et l'essor de la philosophie scolastique, se ferma lui-même à la philosophie au moment ou le monde chrétien lui faisait largement accueil. […] Une éducation exclusivement consacrée à inculquer aux enfants la foi coranique a produit des générations dont, jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle, l'esprit est resté imperméable à toute influence venue d'ailleurs. On ne connait pas d'exemple comparable d'une stérilisation intellectuelle de peuples entiers par la foi religieuse. Si l'on doute de l'effet produit sur les intelligences, il suffit de comparer ce que fut le peuple berbère et, généralement parlant, les peuples habitant l'Afrique du Nord, avant leur conquête par l'Islam et ce qu'ils sont devenus depuis. Presque tous les Pères latins sont des Africains. Tertullien de Carthage, le Numide Arnobe de Sicca et son élève Lactance, saint Cyprien de Carthage, Victorinus l'Africain, le Berbère saint Augustin, bref toute cette glorieuse tête de colonne de la patristique latine […], que de dons splendides de l'Afrique à l'Église de Rome pendant que celle-ci n'avait encore à mettre en balance que saint Ambroise et saint Jérôme!”

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Le Philosophe et la Théologie, 1960

“Nous vivons en un temps et dans un milieu saturé d'idées chrétiennes qui ne se souviennent plus de leur origine.”

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“La souveraine félicité de l'homme ici-bas est d'anticiper, si confusément que ce puisse être, la vision face-à-face de l'immobile éternité.”

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Le Thomisme, introduction au système de saint Thomas, 1919

“Là ou la pensée grecque admet une nécessité antirationnelle, la philosophie chrétienne brise cette nécessité parce qu'elle est irrationnelle.”

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L'Esprit de la philosophie médiévale, 1932

“Nul ne songerait aujourd'hui à parler d'une mathématique chrétienne, ou d'une biologie chrétienne, ou d'une médecine chrétienne. Pourquoi? Parce que la mathématique, la biologie et la médecine sont des sciences et que la science est radicalement indépendante de la religion dans ses conclusions comme dans ses principes. L'expression de "philosophie chrétienne", dont on use, n'est cependant en rien moins absurde et la seule chose à faire est donc de l'abandonner.”

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L'Esprit de la philosophie médiévale, 1932

“La route vers Dieu est facile parce qu'on y avance en se déchargeant.”

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L'Esprit de la philosophie médiévale, 1932

Étienne Gilson: Citations en anglais

“While Descartes finds being in thought, Saint Thomas finds thought in being.”

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Methodical Realism

“We can only choose between two kinds of life, the active and the contemplative.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“Having left us with thought (not a soul), and extension (not a body), [Descartes] does not know how to account for the union of soul and body.”

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Methodical Realism

“What is most apparent and constant in Thomas' personality, the image he most likely had of himself, is the teacher. The saint was essentially a Doctor of the Church; the man was a teacher of theology and philosophy; the mystic never entirely separated his meditations from his teaching, which drew its inspiration from them.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“What, then, will this philosophy be? Thomas only employed it for the service it renders Christian wisdom. No doubt this is why he never thought of separating it from this wisdom and giving it a name. He probably did not foresee that the day would come when people would go through his works to extract the elements of a philosophy from his theology. He himself never attempted this synthesis.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“Most of our contemporaries think that, at bottom, being a philosopher and adopting an idealist method are one and the same thing.”

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Methodical Realism

“The scientific sterility of the Middle Ages has to be condemned for the same reasons which make it necessary today to condemn the philosophic sterility of scientism.”

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Methodical Realism

“Thomas considers that a religious may legitimately aspire to the title and functions of master, but since he could only teach divine things, it is only in relation to the science of divine things that secular sciences can legitimately interest him. This is demanded by the very essence of the contemplative life, the teaching of which is nothing but its immediate extension into the order of the active life.”

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Introduction
Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

“As used today, the word realism means in the first place the opposite to idealism when it claims that it is possible to pass from the subject to the object.”

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Methodical Realism

“With Descartes the Cogito ergo sum [I think, therefore I am] turns into Cogito ergo res sunt</i”

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I think, therefore things are
Methodical Realism

“Indeed, all idealism derives from Descartes, or from Kant, or from both together, and whatever other distinguishing features a system may have, it is idealist to the extent that, either in itself, or as far as we are concerned, it makes knowing the condition of being.”

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Methodical Realism

“Having expelled quality from the field of extension, [idealists] do not know how to account for it when it reappears in thought.”

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Methodical Realism

“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."”

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Methodical Realism

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

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Methodical Realism

“If there is something more in a living being than a pure mechanism, Descartes is bound in advance to miss it.”

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Methodical Realism

“The mathematician always proceeds from thought to being or things. Consequently, critical idealism was born the day Descartes decided that the mathematical method must henceforth be the method for metaphysics.”

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Methodical Realism

“The realist method starts with the whole in order to distinguish the parts.”

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Methodical Realism

“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”

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Methodical Realism

“Hume's skepticism, therefore, descends in a direct line from Cartesian mathematicism.”

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Methodical Realism

“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”

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Methodical Realism

“All realism derives from the analysis of knowledge; all idealism derives from the analysis of a thought.”

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Methodical Realism

“I maintain, therefore, that just as there is in Cartesianism a methodical idealism, the kind that starts with nosse [knowing], there can be a methodical realism, the kind that starts with esse”

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being
Methodical Realism

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