Qohelet Quotes

“The search for the infinite that characterizes European modernity and that is unleashed in the possibilities, themselves infinite, of technology is in truth only the refusal of the originary infinite and the idolatry of an objectified infinite that only promises annihilation, and that at the same time covers and veils the abyss: the blinding clarity that contemporary rationality makes prevail throughout the whole universe and the immensity of space thus exhibited, because they are enough to strike thought with terror, dissimulate the very possibility of the originary infinite; and thus the universe veils the One. Contemporary existance, that of the functionary of technology, is then entirely dedicated to fleeing melancholy, avoiding solitude, eradicating silence, despising the sacred, renouncing the past, denying death, tracking down and anesthetizing all phenomena of faultiness: it is the distraught denial of the abyss of its own distress. But as Heidegger said: “In the face of this abyss one can try to shut one’s eyes. One can erect one illusion after another. The abyss does not retreat.”
― Jean Vioulac, Apocalypse of Truth: Heideggerian Meditations