Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

“Embora de sua aliança só resultasse o mal, havia algo de contemplação na submis…”

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will …”

“Let us say in passing, to be blind and to be loved, is in fact--on this earth w…”