"'There are new men...they propose to destroy everything and begin with cannibalism. Fools! They didn't ask my advice! I maintain that nothing need be destroyed, that we only need to destroy the idea of God in man, that's how we have to set to work. It's that, that we must begin with. Oh, blind race of man who have no understanding! As soon as men have all denied God- periods, will come to pass- the old conception of the universe will fall of itself without cannibalism and what's more the old morality, and everything will begin anew. Men will unite to take from life all it can give, but only for joy and happiness in the present world. Man will be lifted up with a spirit of divine Titanic pride and the man-god will appear. Extending his conquest of nature by his will and his science, man will feel such lofty joy from hour to hour that it will make up for all his old dreams of the joys of Heaven. Everyone will know that he is moral and will accept death proudly and sincerely like a god. His pride will teach him that it's useless for him to grieve at life's being a moment, and he will love his brother without need of reward. Love will be sufficient only for a moment of life, but this very consciousness will intensify its fire, which is now dissipated in dreams of eternal love beyond the grave...
"Is is possible that such a period will ever come? If it does, everything is determined and man is settled forever. But since, owing to man's stupidity, this cannot come about for at least a thousand years, everyone who recognizes truth now may legitimately order his life as he pleases, on the new principles. In that sense, 'all things are lawful' for him.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Brothers Karamazov
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