"No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination."

-- Alan Lightman

#Imagination Quotes #God Exists Quotes

“The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.”

Source : William Empson, John Haffenden (1988). “The royal beasts and other works”
“Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.”
“Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing.”
“I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.”
“I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.”
“Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.”
“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.”
“By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.”

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