Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

- 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, and a mar…

- Walter Kaufmann

To an even moderately sophisticated and well-read person it should come as no surprise that any religion at all has its hidden as well as its obvious…

- Walter Kaufmann

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibil…

- Walter Kaufmann

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

- Walter Kaufmann

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their …

- Walter Kaufmann

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

- 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 either s…

- Walter Kaufmann

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

- Walter Kaufmann