When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.