Occupation: Writer Birth: March 24, 1927
As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm..
Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat ….
I believe that the most important condition for faith is sensitivity to beauty..
People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who….
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics….
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language..
Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and ….
You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore..
You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied..
Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative..
It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it..
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable..