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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
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Three hypotheses: 1) spirit = consciousness = reason are produced by and dependent on matter. 2) Matter is produced by consciousness and is dependent on it. 3) Spirit and matter are inseparably united and neither influences the other. In the first case, I have to answer the question of where the matter that makes up my body came from: from the matter that existed before. And her? From the previous one. And her? I have to accept that this matter that appears alone is incomprehensible to me. In the second case, when asked where the soul came from, I answer that I do not accept the question. Soul, consciousness, reason did not appear out of nowhere, they are, they are the only thing that existed, and they are such that in their absence nothing exists. And that is why, in the first case the source is outside me in the immensity and is absolutely incomprehensible, and in the second it is inside me and is absolutely clear. The third hypothesis falls by itself, because two principles of life—one absolutely incomprehensible, the other absolutely clear—cannot be equal.