Abstract: This study is a reflection on the ways to reach the Truth, once a distinction is accepted between the objective and the existential truth. The first refers mainly to the scientific field, dominated by the levelling myth of public opinion and the public consensus, while the letter refers to the experience of saints, which is above any secular experience. The author wants to re-establish the traditional Byzantine spiritual aristocracy as epistemological criteria, which would not mean reloading the Middle Ages, but resetting of normality and reopening a path to complete humanity, for the use of everyday life.

Keywords: truth, holiness, Byzantine tradition, humanity, God