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“But don’t come around here with your Good Samaritan cosplay bullshit.”
― Jonathan Dee, Sugar Street

“The only certainty, it seems to me, is that those who believe they are certainly right are certainly wrong.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“I think most persons who shall have tested it will accept this as the central point of the illumination: That sanity is not the basic quality of intelligence, but is a mere condition which is variable, and like the humming of a wheel, goes up or down the musical gamut according to a physical activity; and that only in sanity is formal or contrasting thought, while the naked life is realized only outside of sanity altogether; and it is the instant contrast of this ‘tasteless water of souls’ with formal thought as we ‘come to that leaves in the patient an astonishment that the awful mystery of Life is at last but a homely and a common thing, and that aside from mere formality the majestic and the absurd are of equal dignity.”
― Benjamin Paul Blood, The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy

“The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.”
― Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry