Apropos to the feast of St. Gregory bishop of Nyssa

‘People said, Man is a microcosm …and thinking to elevate human nature with this grandiloquent title, they did not notice that they had honoured man with the characteristics of the mosquito and the mouse.’
St. Gregory of Nyssa

The end of reason

Western man, having through the exclusive development of his abstract reason lost faith in all convictions not derived from it, has now owing to that same development, lost his last faith-faith in the omnipotence of that reason.
Ivan Kireevskii