Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.