Athanatos
“It scatters and it gathers; it advances and retires.”
– Heraclitus
“O highest Wisdom, how much art you show
in Heaven, on earth, and in the evil world!
How justly does your power apportion all!”
– Inferno XIX. 10-12.
“Whence comes the Innovator’s authority to pick and choose?”
– C. S. Lewis
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
“Now it is God who is, for you and me, of a truth the ‘measure of all things,’ much more truly than, as they say, ‘man.’” – Plato
“Even if Epictetus did see the way clearly, he only told men: ‘You are on the wrong track.’ He shows us that there is another, but he does not lead us there. The right way is to want what God wants. Christ alone leads to it. Via veritas…”
– Blaise Pascal (Pensées, fragment 466)
“Against the darkness of the interior, the windows are in effect grey or black, and one must go inside the church and turn round in order to see the fire of the glass catch alight; the outside is here sacrificed to the inside. Why?
Perhaps, Durtal answered himself, it’s a symbol of the soul illuminated in its innermost places, an allegory of the spiritual life…”
– J.K. Huysmans, The Cathedral
“We must therefore combine right and might, and to that end make right into might or might into right.”
– Blaise Pascal