Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1941) American writer and activist
quoting Eissler, p. 193
Final Analysis (1990)
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
— Douglas Adams, book The Salmon of Doubt
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
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Context: Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe.
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
