The End of the Modern World Quotes

“One might object that in order to conceive of the universe as a limited whole, the universe must already have been grasped as limited. Such an intuition, so goes the argument, would have had to presuppose the defining boundaries of its world. This does not, however, hold true for the experience of classical man as far as I can see. His vision resulted from a mental act which sets limits to his being, which fended off the chaotic and the indefinite and which renounced every excess. It also developed from a sense of harmony in which existence was perceived as a beautifully ordered cosmion.”
― Romano Guardini, The End of The Modern World: With Power and Responsibility