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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.
Faith and miracle.
For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.
Socialism!
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both
Look within yourself. My next book is on this theme of knowing the self. It is in the press right now.
That there was no law of nature that man should love mankind, and that, if there had been any love on earth hitherto, it was not owing to a natural law, but simply because men have believed in immortality.
Man believes also on afterlife, and that is the main reason why a religion? Fear of death? Uncertainty? Man is confounded with knowing the material world but not the contemplative afterlife.
God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
God and devil
For the sake of common worship they’ve slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, ‘Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!’
Reigion and conflicts
Heaveny greed
Opium of faith and religion
Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort.
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No one is wise from another man’s woe.’
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Love can never be an offence to Christ. For
Love
for ‘men love the downfall and disgrace of the righteous’,
Cynicism
thought it made no difference whether I died
Mitya hurriedly pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and read: ‘ “In order to determine this question, it is above all essential to put one’s personality in contradiction to one’s reality.” Do you understand that?’
Personality and reality
‘You don’t know me yet, Alexey Fyodorovitch,’ she said menacingly. ‘And I don’t know myself yet. Perhaps you’ll want to trample me underfoot after my examination tomorrow.’
Know thyself
