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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
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We tiny separate creatures, with our random external senses (there may be millions of different senses; we see how different they are in animals), create the world through these senses, a world recognizable to us, with microscopic animals and heavenly bodies, and we live with the complete conviction that the world is really like this and only like this. How stupid! Not to mention the fact that this world is absurd in infinite past and future time and infinite space, with infinite bits of matter and equally infinitesimal particles of matter, that is, it is absolute nonsense. Not to mention that (isn't it obvious?) what we call the world of existence really is the product of the senses of a creature gifted by chance with exceptional senses, man. So the world we imagine as the only one existing is only one of countless possible ones. And we know that it is so because we know from participating in it that there is another world that does not depend on certain senses, the spiritual world, one and only one. We cannot say that we know this other world, but we can and must say that it exists. And it is a great blessing to know that she exists.