from Puragatorio
Dante, tr. John Ciardi[Virgil speaking to Dante]
But save all questions of such consequence
till you meet her who will become your lamp
between the Truth and mere intelligence.
How many aspire to the Truth by means of human reason alone. And I don't refer to the scholastics or their followers but the benighted Dawkinses and Hitchenses of the world who claiming liberation from the hoary old ties that bind, bind us in new and more severe chains, because within these we could easily be cast into the Hell of our own making. Human intelligence is faulty and frankly, in my experience, often not much interested in the Truth so much as in making a display of itself for others to admire.
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