We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
I would much rather have you believe in something I don’t agree with than to accept everything blindly.
Believing in everything at the same time is the same as not believing in anything at all.
Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.
Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.
I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.