Quotes by Pavel Aleksandrovici Florenski

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Look carefully at the phenomenon and you will see that it is the butt of another, deeper phenomenon.

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Man is a sum of the world, an abridged summary; the world is the revelation of man, a projection of him.

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Man is an infinity.

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Man is part of the world, but a man is as complex as the world. The world is part of man, but the world is as complex as the people.

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Philosophy is great and valuable not in itself, but as a finger pointing to Christ and a life in Christ.

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Three times more criminal is a rapacious civilization, which knows neither pity nor love for a creature, but seeks only to take advantage of that creature, being driven not by a desire to help nature show its hidden culture, but of external forms and for insistent, violent and conditioned external purposes.

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The very appearance of the miracle is already miraculous.

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Increases gentleness - increases cruelty, increases altruism - increases selfishness. But it does not happen that together with the increase of goodness, evil decreases; but, rather, as in the evolution of electricity: every occurrence of positive electricity goes parallel to the negative. That is why the struggle between good and evil does not disappear, but on the contrary worsens: it cannot end and it seems that it will never end.

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Culture is that rope that you can throw to a drowning person and with which you can strangle your neighbor. The development of culture causes benefits for both good and bad.

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Dialectic is neither the beginning nor the end; basically, it is a means, a way.

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I learned to be gentle when I learned that the life of each of us, and peoples, and humanity exists only by the will of good, so we don't have to worry about anything but today's problems.