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Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.
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