Philosophy always buries its undertakers. - Étienne Gilson

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.

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.

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.