(On
the modern world describing the problems of both East and West as a
disaster rooted in agnosticism and atheism, referring to it as "the
calamity of an autonomous, irreligious humanistic consciousness")
"It has made man the measure of all things on earth—imperfect man, who is never free of pride, self-interest, envy, vanity, and dozens of other defects. We are now paying for the mistakes which were not properly appraised at the beginning of the journey. On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
