Nothing comes into being out of nothing comes into being out of nothing. However, since the number of things that appear to come into existence is very large, and since they arise in all sorts of circumstances and on all sorts of occasions, we must say that everything that appears to come into existence is very large, and since they arise in all sorts of circumstances and on all sorts of occasions, we must say that everything that appears to come into existence is in fact already present in that out of which it arises: since hair, for example, can come only out of hair, there must be hair present, even though concealed, in beard and apparently, in every other substance as well. Hence, in everything there is a portion of everything else. However, hair will none the less be hair because hair predominates in some way. Hair, like everything else, will be infinitely divisible; at every level, it will contain a mixture of everything else and yet will be what it is in virtue of a predominates of itself. These sources of things are homoiomereiai (things with like parts) clearly because everything comes into existence out of something like itself.  #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

There is nothing whose nature is such that must exist, but there is nothing, either, whose nature is exhausted by its relation to other states of affairs. For us, the state of becoming conscious is a special psychic act, different from and independent of the process of becoming fixed or represented and consciousness appears to us as a sensory organ which perceives a content proceeding from another source. It may be shown that psychopathology simply cannot dispense with these fundamental assumptions. If I bear in mind the notion of the two psychic instances and their relation to the consciousness, I find in the sphere of politics a perfectly appropriately analogy to the extra ordinary affection which I feel every state of affairs is ultimate, in the sense that it is something we have to take account of; but it is contingent, too, in the sense that there are circumstances in which it might not have come about. There is nothing, either, whose nature is exhausted by its relation to other states of affairs.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

We would not have the slightest ground for believing in—we could not even conceive the possibility of—general connections. We can recognize directly that, say, fire burns, although we can be mistaken in this as in any other of our beliefs; for to recognize is nothing more or less than to hold a belief. Nature is eternal, or material energy, in perpetual motion. Nature is not to be conquered but to be known; and in following nature, one attains their ideal. Good is a simple and indefinable quality and at the same time to define it as that which ought to be, and thus a quality.  Good is a predicate of certain forms of metal activity—the spirit of inquiry, love, courage, artistic creation, and appreciation. Human society has a single good to which all activity ought to be subordinated, and the doctrine is a set of contractual relations between individuals. Society, is a complex of complex institutions, of which the state is only one. What really matters to you anyway? If I feel like I am being ignore, disrespected, and unappreciated, I move on. I am tired of just sitting here waiting, hurting my back on their daily to produce content that is getting me nowhere.  #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

A community flourishes when this fact is fully realized, when no attempt is made to enforce uniformity upon these diverse competing and cooperating types of institutions. The attempt to achieve absolute security by social planning is doomed to failure and is stultifying in its effects in society. We should not have a system of evil that oppresses the peasant. Religion must be sought in our conscience. Religion is purely and solely the fruit of a morally good heart; it originates entirely from the wish of a good heart that the good in the World should triumph over the evil. To have genuine religion is not to have a belief in God; it is to be a partisan of the good, to act as if the Kingdom of God, which simply means a just and moral World, were attainable. True religion is more than a belief in God. What is essential is the striving in the direction of a moral World whether or not one believe in its attainability. We are not required to believe any such thing, and it does not really matter if we do. We are required to acts as if we believe in God’s kingdom.  #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

The World of the sense is a mere reflection of our own activity, and as a nothing it can hardly require an explanation outside of itself. Our belief in God can be grounded only in the supersensible World, which is the only ultimately real World. This is the World of free moral agents, and, in fact, moral and just, that every truly good act must succeed, that every evil one must surely fail, that for those who really love the good all things must turn out for the best. This does not mean that the good necessarily receiver rewards in terms of pleasure but the World in which we experience pleasure is not the real World. The World of sense objects exists only as a stage on which free agents perform or fail to perform their duty. It has not the slightest influence on morality or immorality, not the slightest power over our free nature. It is, in fact, nothing more than the material objectification of our duty; our duty is what is ultimately real, what is the fundamental stuff or all phenomena.  #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

God is identical with the moral World order. A person believes in God insofar as one does one’s duty gaily and without concern, without doubts or fears about consequences. The true atheist is one who calculates the consequences instead of following the voice of one’s own conscience; one raises one’s own counsel above the counsel of God and thus raises oneself to God’s position. One who does evil in order to produce good is godless. You must not lie, even if the World were to go to pieces as a consequence; a moral agent knows, however, that the World could not go to pieces, since the plan of its preservation could not possible be based on a lie. All cognition is based on the existence of the moral World order. The existence of God, of course, simply means the moral World order, is therefore more certain than anything else. It is presupposed in any piece of valid reasoning, and hence it cannot be, nor does it need to be, proved. It is the ground of all other certainty and the only absolutely valid objective reality.  #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

Belief in an ever-present witness and judge is essential to the moral behavior of human beings; if people were not afraid of punishment in the next World, they would be certain to do evil whenever they expected to escape the secular penalties. To do something that will cause immorality among young people in the future and make belief in God suspect is not a permissible game. Your marvelous faculty of dreaming as if you are awake is based upon your virtues, upon your goodness, your justice, and your love of truth; it is the moral charity of your nature which makes everything about you intelligible to me. I almost believe that all people are made as I am, and that no dreams are nonsense! Love that survives has strangled craving; it lives because it lives to nourish and succor like the Heavens. The mistake of the World is to think happiness possible to the sense. Friendship is so nearly allied to happiness, that one can hardly exist without the other. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

A dream which one remembers so distinctly that one can relate it afterwards, and which, therefore, is no dream of delirium, always has meaning; why, it cannot be otherwise! For that which is in contradiction to itself can never be combined into a whole. The fact that time and space are often thoroughly shaken up, detracts not at all for the real content of the dream, because both are without any significance whatever for its essential content. We often do the same thing in waking life; think of fairy-tales, of so many bold and extraordinary creations of fantasy, of which only a foolish person would say: “That is nonsense! For it is not possible.” When a person is aware of oneself and the World one lives n, one is a harmonious part of all being. Love is love, and ever will be, in spite of mothers and fathers. The Earth has grown weary of the Sun and turns herself into the shadow, eager for rest. The Sun has been too ardent a lover. However, the gaze of the Sun upon the receding Earth is fonder than his look when she raised herself to his bright face. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8