I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.