“That man may crawl like a worm into the folds of the naked earth before the whizz-ing projectiles of blind, pitiless death, or that there he may feel as violently inevitable that which he never feels otherwise …upon all this misery, philosophy smiles its empty smile and, with its outstret-ched index finger, shows the creature, whose limbs are trem-bling in fear for its life in this world, a world beyond, of which it wants to know nothing at all.”

• Franz Rosenzweig