“Reason and science have always, today and from the very beginning of time, played a secondary and a subordinate part; and so they will to the end of time. People are formed and moved by quite a different force, a force that dominates and exercises its authority over them, the origin of which, however, is unknown and inexplicable. That force is the force of an unquenchable desire to go on to the end and, at the same time, to deny the existence of an end. It is the force of an incessant and persistent affirmation of its existence and a denial of death. It is the spirit of life, as the Scripture says, "rivers of living water", the running dry of which is threatened in Revelation. It is the aesthetic principle, as the philosophers call it, an ethical principle, with which they identify it, the "seeking of God", as I call it much more simply. The purpose of the whole evolution of a nation, in every people and at every period of its existence, is solely the pursuit of God, their God, their very own God, and faith in Him as in the only true one. God is the synthetic personality of the whole people, taken from its beginning to its end. There has never yet been a nation without a religion, that is to say, without the conception of good and evil. Every people has its own conception of good and evil and its own good and evil. When the conceptions of good and evil become general among many nations, then these nations begin to die out, and the very distinction between good and evil begins to get blurred and to vanish.” ReasonGodScienceSocialismNation Book:Demons Source: Demons
“Era una notte incantevole, una di quelle notti che succedono solo se si è giovani, gentile lettore.” RussiaAmoreNotteLetteratura RussaSognatoreNotti BiancheStoria Breve Author:Dostoyevsky Fyodor
“Si la souffrance des enfants sert à parfaire la somme des douleurs nécessaires à l'acquisition de la vérité, j'affirme d'ores et déjà que cette vérité ne vaut pas un tel prix.” JusticeMoraleVéritéSouffranceEnfant Author:Dostoyevsky Fyodor