The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad spelling of God.
The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad spelling of God.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos He will set them above their betters.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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