Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given, such answers always give an infinite meaning to the finite existence of man; a meaning that is not destroyed by suffering, deprivation or death. This means only in faith can we find the meaning and possibility of life.
I realised that the essential meaning of faith lies not only in the ‘manifestation of things unseen’, and so on, or in revelation (this is only a description of one of the signs of faith); nor is it simply the relationship between man and God (it is necessary to define faith, then God, and not God through faith); nor is it an agreement with what one has been told, although this is what faith is commonly understood to be. Faith is a knowledge of the meaning of human life, the consequence of which is that man does not kill himself but lives. Faith is the force of life. If a man lives, then he must believe in something. If he did not believe that there was something he must live for he would not live. If he does not see and comprehend the illusion of the finite he will believe in the finite. If he does understand the illusion of the finite, he is bound to believe in the infinite. Without faith it is impossible to live.
I recalled the whole course of my inner thinking and was horrified. It was now clear to me that in order for man to live he must either be unaware of the infinite, or he must have some explanation of the meaning of life by which the finite can be equated with the infinite.
—Leo Tolstoy. A Confession, The Gospel In Brief, and What I Believe, transl. with an Introduction by Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1961)
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Of course, there are passions, mistakes, but one must also make allowances; passions testify to enthusiasm for the cause, and to the wrong external situation in which the cause finds itself.
—Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (New translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (via slaphisface)
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Bentley Continental Supersports in matte black
0-60 in 3.7 seconds (which is faster than a Porsche GT)
Top speed of over 200 miles per hour
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.
—Pindar, Pythian iii (via parallel-synchronized-randomness)
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
