“Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?”
― Letters from Home
― Letters from Home
“We are ultimately unknowable to ourselves and others. Our past and future are mostly unknowable. God is unknowable. For the present the universe - its origins and its destiny - is unknowable, as is whether there are many universes. Infinity is unknowable. These are some of the fundamental reasons why I call myself an agnostic.”
― Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
― Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
― The Red and the Black
― The Red and the Black
“We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. ...Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it.”
― The Problems of Philosophy
― The Problems of Philosophy
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