"There is a quotation attributed to Saint Gregory of Nyssa: 'Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything.' A simpler translation reads 'ideas create idols; only wonder leads to knowing....
...We are so comfortable with our idols and so convinced that they are built on entirely correct ideas that we have stopped wondering at anything and, therefore, are comprehending almost nothing."
- Elizabeth Scalia in Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life., pages 8,10
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