Philosophy begins in wonder

“Wonder signifies that the world is profounder, more all-embracing and mysterious than the logic of everyday reason had taught us to believe. The innermost meaning of wonder is fulfilled in a deepened sense of mystery. It does not end in doubt, but is the awakening of the knowledge that being, qua being, is mysterious and inconceivable.”
Joseph Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture (San Francisco: Ignatius, 2009), 115

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young and rested said…
"Those others, however, who are still able to see the truth that shines in and through and beyond the world of ordinary experience, and who know that nature is in its every aspect the gift of the supernatural, and who understand that God is that absolute reality in whom, in every moment, they live and move and have their being—they are awake.”

~David Bentley Hart (The Experience of God)
15 October 2015 at 15:26
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