We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Word - that invisible dagger.
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.