"Only a few succeed in arriving at these reasons with the eye of the mind, and when one does arrive, insofar as is possible, the very one who arrives does not abide in them, but as it were the eye (of the mind) itself is beaten back and repelled."
— St. Augustine (354-430)
Author
Work Title
Date
397-401
Metaphor
"Only a few succeed in arriving at these reasons with the eye of the mind, and when one does arrive, insofar as is possible, the very one who arrives does not abide in them, but as it were the eye (of the mind) itself is beaten back and repelled."
Metaphor in Context
Only a few succeed in arriving at these reasons [rationes] with the eye of the mind, and when one does arrive, insofar as is possible, the very one who arrives does not abide in them, but as it were the eye (of the mind) itself is beaten back and repelled.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Margaret Miles's "Vision: The Eye of the Body and the Eye of the Mind in Saint Augustine's "De Trinitate" and "Confessions." The Journal of Religion 63.2 (1983): 133.
Theme
Mind's Eye
Date of Entry
04/19/2004
