"It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose."

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Source : "The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, chapter 6 "Suffering and the Bible", p. 166, 1961.

Walter Kaufmann

#Suffering Quotes #Doe Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'”
“I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.”
“By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.”
“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”
“I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go?”
“..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.”
“Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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