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We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

~ Russell Shorto

Russell Shorto Death Godlike Minds Transcend

They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.

~ Russell Shorto

Russell Shorto Doubt Head Knowledge

In asking for a relic of Descartes, the chevalier de Terlon was standing at the crossroads of the ancient and modern. He was applying to a modern thinker - the inventor of analytic geometry, no less - a primitive tradition that extends back not only to the institutionalization of Christianity in the fourth century, when Christians first broke into the tombs of saints to gather relics, but farther still, beyond the horizon of recorded history. The request is all the stranger for the fact that the man whose remains were treated in this quasisaintlike way would go down in history as the progenitor of materialism, rationalism, and a whole tradition that looked on such veneration as nonsense.

~ Russell Shorto

Russell Shorto Faith Reason
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