The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
El incrédulo se imagina que la religión pretende dar soluciones, mientras que el creyente sabe que sólo promete multiplicar enigmas.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, November 06, 2005
Unbelief and Belief
Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), I, 312: