strange combination

This century has given birth to only one philosophical school, and that is existentialism. In existentialism, boredom is the central theme – not God, not whether existence consists of matter or consciousness, not heaven and hell. The main theme is boredom.

It is not a small matter that the best thinkers of this age are finding that man’s most essential need today is how to get out of this boredom. It is becoming heavier and heavier, like a black cloud, and destroying all joy; making life meaningless, creating a situation in which it seems that to be born is a curse, not a blessing. The philosophers are saying that life is a curse, a meaningless boredom, an unending anguish which serves no purpose at all. You suffer so much, you sacrifice so much, and the end result is simply nothing.

The politicians have brought the nations into a state of continuous war – sometimes cold, sometimes hot but the war continues; and

scientists have provided the means to destroy this earth at least seven hundred times. That calculation of seven hundred times is almost ten years old. Within these ten years, they must have become able to destroy the earth at least seven thousand times –

so many nuclear weapons!


It is a strange combination

philosophers giving the idea of suicide as the only way out of this mess, and

politicians creating communism, democracy, socialism, fascism, all kinds of ideologies –

not for man, but man is there to be sacrificed for these ideologies.

And the scientists have created the right weapons in the right time, so that at any moment all of life on this planet can disappear.



the third world war

Albert Einstein was asked,
”Do you have something to say about the third world war ?”

He said, ”I am sorry. I cannot say anything about the third world war, but if you want to know about the fourth, I can say something.”

The man who had asked the question simply could not believe it. If he could not say anything about the third, what could he say about the fourth?

He asked him, unbelievingly, ”Okay, what can you say about the fourth?”

And Albert Einstein said,
”The fourth will never happen – that much can be said about the fourth!
About the third, nothing can be said.”