![]() Consciousness and finality are fundamentally the same thing. Or rather this for, this notion of finality, and feeling rather than notion, this teleological feeling, is born only where there is consciousness. For the only consciousness of which we have consciousness is that of man. "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it," says the Gospel but it does not say "whosoever will save his soul," the immortal soul-or, at any rate, which we believe and wish to be immortal.Īnd what all the objectivists do not see, or rather do not wish to see, is that when a man affirms his "I," his personal consciousness, he affirms man, man concrete and real, affirms the true humanism-the humanism of man, not of the things of man-and in affirming man he affirms consciousness. True, a man ought not to wish to die, but the death to be renounced is the death of the soul. This is the source from which springs all that effeminate, sentimental ebullition against war. And it happens that the less a man believes in the soul-that is to say in his conscious immortality, personal and concrete-the more he will exaggerate the worth of this poor transitory life. ![]() A human soul, mind you! Not a human life. ![]() The world is made for consciousness, for each consciousness.Ī human soul is worth all the universe, someone-I know not whom-has said and said magnificently. ![]()
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