Bare your sole
Bear your sole
Bare your soul
Bear your soul
Bare your soleil
Bear your soleil
Bear your sole
Bare your soul
Bear your soul
Bare your soleil
Bear your soleil
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Not Too Seriously
Posted on 2:50 PM by Unknown
Faith is something very different from belief. Belief is the systematic taking of unanalyzed words much too seriously. Paul's words, Mohammed's words, Marx's words, Hitler's words—people take them too seriously, and what happens? What happens is the senseless ambivalence of history—sadism versus duty, or (incomparably worse) sadism as duty; devotion counterbalanced by organized paranoia; sisters of charity selflessly tending the victims of their own church's inquisitors and crusaders. Faith, on the contrary, can never be taken too seriously. For Faith is the empirically justified confidence in our capacity to know who in fact we are, to forget the belief-intoxicated Manichee in Good Being. Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.
page 33 Island Aldous Huxley, Part III of Notes on What's What PDF
page 33 Island Aldous Huxley, Part III of Notes on What's What PDF
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