/lit/ - Literature

Good thread, OP. Here are my contributions:

From Mainländer:
>This is why I see my philosophy, which is nothing else than the purified philosophy of the genius Schopenhauer, as a motive, which will lead to the same internalization, absorption and concentration in humans of our present time of history, which the motive of the Savior brought forth in the first centuries after his death.
>However like the day is only day, because night precedes and follows it, likewise the adamant trust, the deep peace of heart cannot be achieved without the dark terrible night of despair. It must choke and distress, whip and lash them, must break them, kill them in a sense: Adam must die, if Christ wants to resurrect.
>Let however no one believe, that this night relies upon harsh beatings by fate: on sicknesses, hunger, broken existence, fatalities of loved ones, difficult worries about existence. Human’s doubts are what shake the most, as well as the wasteland of the heart. Not a single enlightened one has been spared the thorns. Before he becomes enlightened, he looked into his eroding storming breast or in his desolate heart: there was only coldness, stiffness, wasteland: no hint of enthusiasm to be found, no sparkling sources splatter in the treasures of trees, on whose branches sing joyful birds.

From Tomberg:
>When we advance on the path of spiritual discipleship, we ourselves notice very little of this advance. Other people and higher beings notice it, but not we ourselves. We may be well aware of our mistakes and weaknesses, but it is not possible for us to know what we attain in the positive sense. Even the gods had to withdraw from their task and rest on the seventh day so that they could know that the world they had created was good. All the more so are human beings unable to say whether there is progress in their inner spiritual development. There is a sign, however, that does indicate this. It is the fact that one becomes inwardly ever more isolated. At first, one has many companions of the same disposition, awake to the same questions and concerns.
>Then one discovers with dismay that the circle of people interested in these questions becomes ever narrower. Finally, one finds that there are only two or three others who are still awake in this domain—the others are asleep. At some point a person makes this discovery. Then there comes a moment at which one finds oneself alone between sleeping humanity and the dark, silent heavens. During the hour of the greatest decisions, heaven is silent—that is a law. The spiritual beings do not want to impel a human being to any decision. As human beings, we must decide for ourselves, out of our freedom, everything that determines our destiny, our path. And one can say that this situation—which was experienced to a tremendous degree by Christ Jesus—must be suffered through in some form or other by everyone on the path of spiritual discipleship.

>>12229310
You're severed physically from your parents--time to sever yourself spiritually. With tears in his eyes the knight of faith must undo the bonds of kinship in order to tether himself totally to the way of Christ. Nothing else matters, OP.

>>12227030
Important mathematicians and scientists who were theists:
>Riemann (uttered the Lord's Prayer with his dying breath--bless his soul)
>Gödel (read the Bible every Sunday)
>Einstein (Gödel's best friend; "officially" an atheist but turned away secular science towards Kantian metaphysics in his later years)
>Heisenberg (a Platonist)
>Lemaître (convinced Einstein of the cosmic egg creation theory, otherwise known as the Big Bang)
>Planck ("the spirit is the matrix of all matter")
>Neumann (met with a priest shortly before passing--evidently extraordinary mathematical ability was not enough to purge the fear of God from him)
>Maxwell
>Faraday
etc etc thats just from the top of my head

>>11700419
>Not having enough free time on work to need a leisure book

Is it possible to be a Knight of Faith?

>The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

Characters that are Knights of Faith?

by just having faith lmao