"But what! Shall we, losing all hope, shut our eyes and plunge into the voiceless depths of a universal scepticism? Shall we doubt that we think, that we feel, that we are? Nature does not allow it; she forces us to believe even when our reason is not convinced. Absolute certainty and absolute doubt are both alike forbidden to us. We hover in a vague mean between these two extremes, as between being and nothingness; for complete scepticism would be the extinction of the intelligence and the total death of man. But it is not given to man to annihilate himself; there is in him something which invincibly resists destruction, I know not what vital faith, indomitable even by his will. Whether he likes it or not, he must believe, because he must act, because he must preserve himself. His reason, if he listened only to that, teaching him to doubt everything, itself included, would reduce him to a state of absolute inaction; he would perish before even he had been able to prove to himself that he existed"
Félicité Robert de Lamennais, "Essai sur l'indifférence en matière de religion", Part III, chap. LXVII).
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Beautiful graphic. I love the interwoven, 3D feel of this one. The deep red colour is perfect for it.
Thanks Dzeni! It is unexpected, mostly because I never know what will like, and what I expect that will do, it doesn't. That's what I like from blogging, it pushes me somehow to publish everything, in spite of if I like it or not. And many times happens this, someone likes it :-)
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