"To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic."
― Walter Kaufmann
Topic(s):
Faith
More From Walter Kaufmann
- "The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha’s atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah."
- "When Hegel later became a man of influence’ he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion."
- "Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person."
More In Faith
- "And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn’t think so."― Norman MacCaig
- "The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God’s identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it’s the truth."― Anne Lamott
- "What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life."― Rick Perry