The Essential Condition of Human Existence

The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able to bow down before something infinitely great.  If men are deprived of the infinitely great, they will not go on living and will die of despair.  The Infinite and the Eternal are as essential for man as the little planet on which he dwells.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed (New York, 2005), page 663.

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