Epilogue

You can take my word for it too that Greece, Egypt, ancient India
and ancient China, the beauty of the world, the pure and authentic
reflections of this beauty in art and science, what I have seen of the
inner recesses of the human hearts where religious belief is
unknown, all these things have done as much as the visibly
Christian ones to deliver me into Christ’s hands as his captive.

—Simone Weil