When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions,....

“ When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what? ”

Rebecca Goldstein

From : 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction