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Quote from Herman Hesse:

You write me that you are in despair and do not know what to believe, what to hope. You do not know whether or not there is a God. You do not know whether or not life has any meaning, whether or not love of country has a meaning, whether, in the wretched condition of the world, it is better to strive for spiritual goods or merely to fill your belly.

I believe your state of mind and soul to be the right one. Not to know whether there is a God, not to know whether there is good and evil, is far better than to know for sure.

Tomfoolery33 9 Dec 17
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Oh, those wise words.

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Hesse is my favorite author. We humans have all too great a capacity for deluding ourselves. To have at least some doubt is to be open to valid new information.

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