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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

You’ve got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don’t want.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.