My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
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Zum Autor"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
"The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong."
"I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have."
"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall."