We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who
Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense
To recover a sense of reality is to recover the truth
are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are.
of reality. If war should come, it will do so on account of our
delusions, for which our hag-ridden conscience attempts
to find moral excuses.
about ourselves and the world in which we live, and thereby
to gain the power of keeping this world from flying asunder.
Nikolai Berdyaev