Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds – a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.
The ethical expression for what Abraham did is that he meant to murder Isaac; the religious expression is that he meant to sacrifice Isaac — but precisely in this contradiction is the anxiety that can make a person sleepless, and yet without this anxiety Abraham is not who he is.
Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!
