Walter Kaufmann

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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

— Walter Kaufmann

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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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

— Walter Kaufmann

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