Quotes by : Étienne Gilson

God creates, not that there may be witnesses to render Him His due glory, but beings who shall rejoice....

When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques,....

It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in....

What a man finds circa se or sub se is overwhelming in amount, what he finds in se is embarassing in....

Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes....