Commonplace book I

But what have been thy answers, what but dark
Ambiguous and with double sense deluding
Which they who asked have seldom understood.
MILTON


 

If one had studied the human spirit a little, one knows what power the marvelous has over it.
FONTENELLE


 

Since inquiry is the beginning of philosophy, and wonder and uncertainty the beginning of inquiry, it seems only natural that the greater part of what concerns the gods should be concealed in riddles.
PLUTARCH