Sunday, April 09, 2006

Humanist quote of the day

"Man's responsibility increases, as that of the gods decreases." - Andre Gide, writing in his journal

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"God willed it" is most often only a euphamism for "I don't know." The more we learn, the less is simply attibutable to the mystery "God."

Impatient Patient said...

yup- think about all the diseases we ttributed to God or the Devil- well actually we seem to be regressing, but I hope you know what I mean. Faith is cheaper than medicine I guess.