The freedom from misconceptions
about the world and all other dogmatic commitments …
is not easy to gain or to keep …
But in historical inquiry,
even the greatest and most cherished forms
with which individuals have sought to express
some absolute truth
become a threat to one’s judgement
the moment one subscribes to them.
Erich Auerbach, Vier Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der französischen Bildung (Bern: A. Francke, 1951) 10–11, translated by James Porter
…
Thus the whole life and death of the soul depends on the heart …
Peter Abelard, Order of the Paraclete, § 93
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