At a time when racism, violence, and suffering seem to be
greater than ever, these words of Fyodor Dostoyevsky are very appropriate.
greater than ever, these words of Fyodor Dostoyevsky are very appropriate.
“I believe
like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the
humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful
mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small
Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal
harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all
hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the
crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it
not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the
humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful
mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small
Euclidean mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal
harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all
hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the
crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they’ve shed; that it will make it
not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov