“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.
--From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954”
― The Collected Poems
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.
--From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954”
― The Collected Poems
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