ABSTRACT
Human life is impossible. But it is only affliction which makes us feel this.
The impossibility of good: ‘Good comes out of evil, evil out of good, and when will it all end?’
The good is impossible. But man always has enough imagination at his disposal to hide from himself in each particular case the impossibility of good (it is enough if for each event which does not crush us ourselves we can veil part of the evil and add a fictitous good-and some people manage to do this even if they are crushed themselves). Man’s imagination at the same time prevents him from seeing ‘how much the essence of the necessary differs from that of the good,’ and prevents him from allowing himself really to meet God who is none other than the good itself-the good which is found nowhere in this world.
