Perspective Quote by Walter Kaufmann

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making…

— Walter Kaufmann

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are…

— Walter Kaufmann

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired…

— Walter Kaufmann

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much…

— Walter Kaufmann

The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,…

— Walter Kaufmann

“One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all…

— Walter Kaufmann

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture…

— 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.…

— Walter Kaufmann

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

— Walter Kaufmann

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than…

— Walter Kaufmann

“Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium. Few things about the strategy of contemporary apologists are more repellent than their frequent recourse…

— Walter Kaufmann

“Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus…

— Walter Kaufmann