[S]ince being is analogical, we are quite correct in using the same words, in particular the word 'being', for both God and his creatures. - Henri de Lubac

Credulity, sectarianism, and sloth are three natural tendencies of man. Too often he canonizes them under nobler names.

The fear of falling a prey to error must never prevent us from getting to the full truth. To overstep the limit, to go beyond, would be to err through excessive daring; but there are also errors of timidity which consist precisely in stopping short, never daring to go any further than half-truths.<p>Love of truth never goes without daring. And that is one of the reasons why truth is not loved.

There is nothing more demanding than the taste for mediocrity. Beneath its ever moderate appearance there is nothing more intemperate; nothing surer in its instinct; nothing more pitiless in its refusals. It suffers no greatness, shows beauty no mercy.