Walter Kaufmann Quotes about Suffering

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life... The life I want is a life I could not endure in

Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life... The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

Walter Kaufmann

Reading, People, Suffering

"The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, Princeton University Press, Ch. 12 (pp. 374-375), 1961.

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

Suffering, Doe, Purpose

"The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, chapter 6 "Suffering and the Bible", p. 166, 1961.

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

Walter Kaufmann

Suffering, Problem, Knows

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

Giving, Suffering, Meaning Of Life

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

Walter Kaufmann

Suffering, Add, Needs

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Walter Kaufmann

Suffering, Special, Atheism

"The Faith of a Heretic". Book by Walter Kaufmann, ch. 6, 1961.

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

Men, Suffering, Doe

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

Fashion, Suffering, Trying

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

Walter Kaufmann

Two, Suffering, Facts

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

Fate, Punishment, Suffering

Walter Kaufmann Quotes about Suffering

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