“ It all comes down to the mystery of the relationship between the mind and the cosmos. Those who would employ reductive definitions of utility or reality credit their own perceptions of truth with fundamentalist simple-heartedness, brooking no allusion to complexities and ambiguities and countervailing experience. But if the mind is able to tell us what is true, why not credit its attempt at higher truth? And if its intuitions in these matters often seem to be in error, even to those who do not by any means wish to dismiss them, are not its intuitions always very substantially in error even in matters of science and economics? Is it not in fact a very naive conception of reality, and of its accessibility to human understanding, that would exclude so much of what human beings have always found meaningful, as if by this means fallibility or error or delusion could be localized and rejected?
Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam (via hulga-joy)
