Etienne Gilson Quotes

The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.

Etienne Gilson

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• What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Fun
  • Worked
  • Notion

• I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • Up
  • Kind

• The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time. The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.

  

  John Curtin
  • Exist
  • Finding
  • Consistency

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Madness
  • Existed
  • Great Minds

• I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Wanted
  • Notion
  • Sisters

• Geometry existed before creation.

  

  Plato
  • Creation
  • Geometry
  • Existed

• How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Wise
  • Island
  • Existed

• The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Education
  • Failure
  • Produce

• There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Loving
  • Notion

• The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Sea
  • Notion
  • Vast

• If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Written
  • Existed
  • Dostoyevsky

• Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Doubted

• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Character
  • Notion
  • Regardless

• It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins.

  

  Augustus Hopkins Strong
  • Sins
  • Repentance
  • Doubted

• The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Feels
  • Acting
  • Actors

• It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

  

  George A Tice
  • Better
  • Records
  • Photograph

• And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

  

  Michael Haneke
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Parents

• You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Look
  • Give
  • Everyone

• As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation.

  

  Nancy Holder
  • Tradition
  • Existed
  • Exaltation

• It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

  

  Willie McCovey
  • Feels
  • Seems
  • Operations

• I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

  

  Dan Winters
  • World
  • Moment
  • Debt

• A lot of people forget that today. They come to the point where you walk on a set and the first thing you know you're looking at the sound man and you're saying to yourself, "How the hell can they get any sound when nobody is talking!" They get all mumbly. You can't make out what they're saying! And you're 6 feet away from them! Whereas in the old-time movies, you hear them, you understand every word they're saying, and you didn't have to put on your loudspeaker.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Movies
  • Forget
  • Sound

• The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Notion
  • Existed
  • Doubted