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We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Archibald MacLeish
Atheism, Liberty, Belief
1976 'Now Let Us Address The Main Question: Bicentennial of What?', in the NewYork Times, 3 Jul.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

Archibald MacLeish
Atheism, Odd, Positive Atheism
Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.

Archibald MacLeish
Atheism, Questions And Answers, Knows
1928 'The Hamlet of A. MacLeish'.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Archibald MacLeish
Ideas, Expectations, Atheism

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Archibald MacLeish
Atheism, Demand, Patterns

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Archibald MacLeish
Men, Practice, Atheism
Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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