Book: Prophets and poets. Page 34

Everything in the world is plural, intelligence is different for everyone, perfection requires the presence of inequality that ensures all stages of perfection.

Everything that is accidental has its own necessity.

Great correctness and improvement in a multifaceted harmonic whole is astonishing, and even the ordinary mind is never able to recognize their existence without admitting some reasonable culprit of the world.

Everything that moves is set in motion by something; as we ascend from effect to cause, we will sooner or later come to the root cause, that everything moves by being motionless. It's God.

In science, before believing, one must know, in religious matters that transcend reason, one must first believe.

Only youth knows everything, maturity already suspects everything, old age simply believes in everything.

Let's not primitivize God in our own image and likeness! For - and this is realized even by simple religions - God is not just high, inaccessible or incommensurable with the world, but is otherworldly: consciousness, intellect, intuition are too weak tools to cross the line where the laws of the universe cease to be the rulers of order and become only weak reflections of the divine world.

Today there is no former confidence in the progressiveness of the Enlightenment and the correctness of the path chosen by his fathers. On the contrary, it is increasingly seen traces of the crisis of thinking.

The thought of the Middle Ages was never stunted, decadent, retrograde. If something strikes in her, then - power, diversity, ideological courage, richness of shades. And the motto of the philosophy of the Middle Ages is surprisingly modern: “to know to believe, to believe in order to know.

Our religion is a religion of worship of chiefs, party, gang, pack. By the way, a convenient invention. Convenient, profitable, reliable: bowed - immediately get. Complicity is a privilege. Faithful - circular responsibility... Wrong - punishment doesn't wait either. Isn't that why "God is dead" to "Gulag archipelago" is one step?..

Our minds have bent so strongly in favor of logically provable theorems and demonstrable phenomena that we have lost the ability to perceive metaphysical truths.

Our misfortune lies precisely in the fact that our era has become nothing more than a time that is impatient, that does not want to hear anything about eternity, that longs to turn the eternal into superfluous, which, however, has not been possible for ever and ever.

Rational truth is not beautiful. In addition, she is always ready to justify the world: violence, cruelty, injustice, lack of mercy. God is the compensation for the rationalistic horrors of the world.

Today, when we are talking about perestroika, glasnost and freedom, I still feel only fear - for myself and for those who believed in the possibility of freethinking in the era of fanatical zeal of the leaders and masses.