A Human Strategy, aphorism 24
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It was not merely Christianity that had collapsed, but every denial of our own existence — leaving our neglected nature and the task to harness that nature toward another, higher task: our authentic relation to our own reality. We may console our loss of religion with this new task: it serves as a last obligation to ourselves.
It was not merely Christianity that had collapsed, but every denial of our own existence — leaving our neglected nature and the task to harness that nature toward another, higher task: our authentic relation to our own reality. We may console our loss of religion with this new task: it serves as a last obligation to ourselves.