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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite · fl. c. 500 CE

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“Philosophy's most successful forgery — a book that lied about its author for a thousand years while telling the truth about the limits of language.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 64

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“God is beyond every name we can utter — beyond "good," beyond "being," beyond even "One" — so the deepest knowledge of God is a disciplined, luminous unknowing.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 64

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