
“The root of the greatest errors in philosophy lies in projecting our human purposes, criteria and preferences into the objective universe.
Hence our "problem of evil"; we strive to reconcile the ills of life with the goodness of God, forgetting the lesson taught to Job, that God is beyond our little good and evil.
Good and bad are relative to human and often individual tastes and ends, and have no validity for a universe in which individuals are ephemera, and in which the Moving Finger writes even the history of the race i water.”
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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