The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived at by selective abstraction.

And we cannot keep our balance. Myth gives way to Reason. Revelation to Orthodoxy. We must dance or go mad.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.