The Highest Philosophy

“Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defense against the incomprehensible.”

- Oswald Spengler

“The highest philosophy is the remembrance of death.”

- Elder Cleopa 

The least comprehensible aspect of life is that it ends. Living indelibly stamps upon the conscience of a human being the presence of meaning: but nothing is more meaningless than death.

We do not choose to be born, and we also thereby do not choose the imperative toward meaningfulness which every human being feels.

So human life is a paradox, one which is only ever resolved in death. The most meaningful activity one can undertake in this life is to prepare to die.

To be human means to live always in the shadow of death: to be Christian means to realize the shadow is the shadow of the Cross.

To be human means knowing nothing survives death. To be Christian means knowing only love survives.

To be human means to know I will die. To be Christian means to know death has been conquered.