"The death of God represents not only the……" — William H. Gass
"The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth."
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William H. Gass
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41 Quotes by William H. Gass
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
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What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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More Astrology Quotes
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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical…
— Marvin Minsky
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only…
— Jonathan Swift
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example,…
— Carl Sagan
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any…
— Thomas Huxley
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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
— Mason Cooley
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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
— J. P. Morgan
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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
— Louis Pasteur
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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
— J. P. Morgan
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If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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