Archibald MacLeish Quotes About Atheism
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
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The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.
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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
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Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
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If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
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To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.
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We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.
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That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.
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