You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can think that the gods, including my Melitele, are merely a personification of this power invented for simpletons so they can understand it better, accept its existence. According to you, that power is blind. But for me, Geralt, faith allows you to expect what my goddess personifies from nature: order, law, goodness. And hope.
Interpretation
The quote discusses the concept of belief in nature and divine forces, highlighting the tension between faith and a more empirical understanding of the world.
In this quote, the speaker explores the idea that nature and a hidden force govern the universe, where some see deities as mere simplifications of these natural laws. The speaker contrasts a belief in blind power with a faith that finds meaning in concepts like order, goodness, and hope, suggesting that faith provides a deeper understanding of the universe's complexities.
In practice
In a discussion about the philosophical implications of nature versus religion.
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.
Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.
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