But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»