#sm

Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes." Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life #philosophy #religion #art

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#been #both #child #different #hard

My wife is short, and my two kids are also small. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#kids #short #small #two #wife

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#coming #count #day #decades #die

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #born #generosity #let us #selfish

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #feeling #led #me #personal

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#anything #demonstrably #ever #makes #obvious

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#christian #humanist #humanitarianism #more #movement