“The relationship between our knowledge and God is the same as that between a polygon and the circumference into which it is drawn: as the sides of the polygon gradually increase, it comes closer and closer to circumference, but the polygon and the circumference will never be the same. God, said Nicholas (of Cusa), is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
…excerpts from Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
the book I’m now reading.
I just finished reading Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson