So long as I pilgrimaged through the fields of reason in search of God, I could not find Him, for I was not deluded by the idea of God, neither could I take an idea for God, and it was then, as I wandered among the wastes of rationalism, that I told myself that we ought to seek no other consolation than the truth, meaning thereby reason, and yet for all that I was not comforted.
Arrazoimenaren alorretan zehar Jainkoaren bila pelegrin ibili nintzen bitartean, ezin nuen hura aurkitu, Jainkoaren ideiak engainatzen ez ninduelako, ideia bat Jainkotzat ezin har bainezakeen, eta orduan, arrazionalismoaren eremuetan erraturik nenbilenean, neure buruari esan nion ez genuela egia ez beste kontsolakizunik hartu behar, horrela arrazoimena deituz, baina, hala ere, kontsolatu gabe geratu nintzen.