on divinity
December 3rd, 2008
on divinity, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r.
on divinity, originally uploaded by s t e r n f a h r e r.
“The world is divine because the world is inconsequential. That is why art alone, by being equally inconsequential, is capable of grasping it. It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it—just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations.
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore. But at least he who consents to his own return and to the return of all things, who becomes an echo and an exalted echo, participates in the divinity of the world.
By this subterfuge, the divinity of man is finally introduced. The rebel, who at first denies God, finally aspires to replace Him.”
- On Metaphysical Rebellion, L’Homme Révolté, Albert Camus
Tags: Camus, divinity, existentialism, rebellion
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