REASON ---> FINITE

• Sensual enjoyment
• Religious emotion
• Aesthetic & Moral sentiment
• TRUE and ABSOLUTE

GOD
Unknowable
Undefinable = Dogma

(Object has no longer interest for the intellect)

On the ground that God is unknowable, man excuses himself to what is yet remaining of his religious conscience for his forgetfulness of God, his absorption in the world: he denies God practically by his conduct,—the world has possession of all his thoughts and inclinations,—but he does not deny him theoretically, he does not attack his existence; he lets that rest.

But this existence does not affect or make him inconvenient; it is a merely negative existence, an existence without existence, a non-being.

On the ground that God is unknowable, man excuses himself to what is yet remaining of his religious conscience for his forgetfulness of God, his absorption in the world: he denies God practically by his conduct,—the world has possession of all his thoughts and inclinations,—but he does not deny him theoretically, he does not attack his existence; he lets that rest.

But this existence does not affect or make him inconvenient; it is a merely negative existence, an existence without existence, a non-being.

The alleged religious horror of limiting God by positive predicates is only the irreligious wish to know nothing more about God, to banish God from the mind.

Dread of limitation is dread of existence.
BELIEVE in the Divine existence: not shocked at the attributing even of gross sensuous qualities to God. He who DREADS an existence that may give offence, who shrinks from the grossness of a positive predicate, may as well renounce existence altogether.

A God who is injured by determinate qualities has not the courage and the strength to exist. Qualities are the oxygen existence.

An existence without qualities, is an insipidity, an absurdity. But there can be no more in God than is supplied by religion.