Sublime

It then concludes that our own inner storytelling plays a surprising role in creating the seeming concreteness of things and the tangibility of history.

immemorial. Only modern Western science, plagued by its materialist metaphysics, has chosen to dismiss the universe’s symbolic significance.’

Realizing that knowledge is provisional moves us further and further away from the dream of so many philosophies: finding a foundation to knowledge that can offer certainty.

Derek Parfit,

Se todos fôssemos racionais, não haveria pequenos negócios, não haveria exploração de novos campos, haveria muito pouca inovação e não haveria grandes líderes para inspirar todas essas coisas.

As discussed in Part I, the full realization of transcendence is a kind of quantum leap: it happens spontaneously, suddenly, in one swift movement without any apparent cause. It’s a kind of grace. But if we are running intellectual models that anchor us to the bottom of the ‘hole’ of conditioning—like the deprived myth of materialism—we give grace

A deprived myth is not the same as an absence of myth.