...touchingly upon the difficulties that surround philosophers, and the patience that sustains them. " The fictitious depresses them, the obscure pains them,...straightway there is a certain cheering light, and joyous confirmatory brightness, that plays around the sphere of their minds." * These are the consolations...

...multiplicity of things, but continually enlightened more and more, he says of such as enjoy the faculty, — " The fictitious depresses them, the obscure pains them...make a discovery of the truth, straightway there is a cheering light and joyful confirmatory brightness that plays around the sphere of their mind, and a...

...Those who have had experiences of such higher knowing recognize it immediately by a multitude of signs: When, after a long course of reasoning, they make a discovery of the trulli, straightway there is a certain cheering light, and joyful confirmatory brightness, that plays...