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"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
"Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about."
"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
"The gods, not out of mercy, have made me strong."
"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
"...If you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'."