Edwin

“Schopenhauer believed in the absolute determinism of the natural process and furthermore in a first cause. There is nothing to warrant either assumption. The first cause is a philosophical mythologem which is only credible when it appears in the form of the old paradox Ἓν τò πãν, as unity and multiplicity at once. The idea that the simultaneous points in the causal chains, or meridians, represent meaningful coincidences would only hold water if the first cause really were a unity. But if it were a multiplicity, which is just as likely, then Schopenhauer’s whole explanation collapses, quite apart from the fact, which we have only recently realized, that natural law possesses a merely statistical validity and thus keeps the door open to indeterminism.”
― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity

“Paul is consistent with his Mediterranean environment in seeing the world as full of more-than-human beings who have the ability to control humans. The nomenclature Paul uses already indicates the beginning of the shift that will lead to Christian theological taxonomies of angelology and demonology”
― Alexander Chantziantoniou, Paul within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle

“if you were to destroy humanity’s belief in immortality”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“And he loved before all else the living human soul everywhere and in everything”
― Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, The Heart of Reality: Essays on Beauty, Love, and Ethics