“No one enters heaven except through philosophy.”

—  John Scotus Eriugena

Annotationes in Marciam, no. 64; translation from John Joseph O’Meara Eriugena (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988) p. 30.
Original: (la) Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam.

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