63 Quotes by Walter Kaufmann

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

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

According to Augustine and many of his successors, all men deserve eternal torture, but God in his infinite mercy saves a very few.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

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

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

The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.

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