Sublime

the other portrayals were, in a phrase of Fergus Kerr, “unavoidable anthropomorphisms.” See Kerr, After Aquinas, 77;

And so he proposes death as the penalty.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

We deploy knowledge and ideas that carry indubitable prestige to stand guard against the emergence of more humble but essential knowledge from our emotional past. We bury our personal stories beneath an avalanche of expertise. The possibility of a deeply consequential intimate enquiry is deliberately left to seem feeble and superfluous next to the

It is hard to see how anybody can call Wycliffe a Protestant unless he calls Palagius or Arius a Protestant;

Meister Eckhart was both a brilliant speculative theologian and a majestically gifted writer. He was also given to expressing his more difficult ideas in almost willfully audacious language.

Peter Clergue, the randy rector of Montaillou, died before he could be sentenced. On 16 January 1329, he was pronounced a heretic, and his remains were dug up and burnt.