Mantissa by John Fowles

Author:John Fowles [FOWLES, JOHN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Psychological
ISBN: 9780316255639
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2013-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

III

But what persuades many that it is difficult to prove the existence of divinity is this. They never raise their minds above things apprehensible to the senses, and are become so accustomed to not considering anything without first imagining it – a way of thinking applicable only to material objects – that all that is unimaginable seems to them unintelligible. This is manifest in the fact that even the philosophers hold it for a maxim in their schools that nothing can enter the mind that has not first passed through the senses – in which, however, it is certain that the concept of divinity has never found a place. It seems to me that those who try to use their imagination to understand this concept behave exactly as if they tried to use their eyes to hear sounds or smell scents….

– René Descartes, Discours de la Méthode

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