[210F-LER: p. 82]
“Augustine writes in the City of God: ‘We use the things which we demand or seek not for their own sake but for the sake of something else, we but enjoy the things we relate to nothing else, which delight us in themselves. Thus the secular is an object of use, … but the Eternal, God, is an object of … enjoyment.’ “ [210F-LER: p. 82]
[211F-LER: p. 85]
“How untrue we Germans have become to our source, our mother, and how unlike her, thanks to Christianity which taught us that heaven is our home.” [211F-LER: p. 85]
[212F-LER: p. 87]
“I cannot derive my body from my mind – for I have to eat or to be able to eat before I can think; as the animals demonstrate, I can eat without thinking, but I cannot think without eating; I cannot derive my senses from my faculty of thought, from my reason – for reason presupposes the senses, but the senses do not presuppose reason, for we hold that the animals lack reason, but not senses. No more, or perhaps even less, can I derive nature from God.” [212F-LER: p. 87]
[213F-LER: p. 91]
“Nature is light, electricity, magnetism, air, water, fire, earth, animals, plants; nature is man, insofar as he is a being who acts instinctively and unconsciously … .” [213F-LER: p. 91]
[214F-LER: p. 95]
“It is only the limitations of man’s thinking, his taste for convenience, that replace time by eternity, the endless chain from cause to cause by infinity, dynamic nature by a stable Godhead, eternal motion by eternal rest.” [214F-LER: p. 95]
[215F-LER: p. 97]
“The very nature of thought and speech, the requirements of life itself oblige us to make use of abbreviations on every hand, to substitute concepts for intuitions, signs for objects, in a word, the abstract for the concrete, the one for the many, and accordingly one cause for many different causes, one individual for different individuals as their representative. In this sense is it perfectly right to say that reason, at least as long as reason, not yet disciplined by observation of the world, regards itself uncritically as the essence of the world, … leads necessarily to the idea of divinity.” [215F-LER: p. 97]
[216F-LER: p. 99]
“ … I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors, but even on their shoulders I stand on my own feet; true, I was begotten and conceived without my knowledge or will; but I did not come into the world
