Thomas Merton Quotes

I Got To A State Where Phrases Like "the Good, The True, And The Beautiful" Filled Me With A Kind Of Suppressed Indignation, Because They Stood For The Big Sin Of Platonism: The Reduction Of All Reality To The Level Of Pure Abstraction, As If Concrete, Individual Substances Had No Essential Reality Of Their Own, But Were Only Shadows Of Some Remote, Universal, Ideal Essence Filed Away In A Big Card-index Somewhere In Heaven, While The Demi-urges Milled Around The Logos Piping Their Excitement In High, Fluted, English Intellectual Tones.

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