“If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.”

— Henry Miller

The Books in My Life (1952) Chapter 11: The Story of My Heart (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 192)

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American novelist 1891–1980

James Hilton book Lost Horizon

Source: Lost Horizon

“If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

PLEASE DONT BELIEVE IN PAGE NUMBER THEY ARE WRONG I TRIED TO FIND QUOTES BUT THEY ARE NOT TTHERE FUCK THIS SHIT, 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013), Ira Levinson, Chapter 28 Ira, p. 341

“We have two lives about us,
Two worlds in which we dwell,
Within us and without us,
Alternate Heaven and Hell
Without, the somber Real,
Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.”

Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) American poet

The Castle in the Air.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now.”

Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

2000s, Thus Spake Stallman (2000)
Context: Religious people often say that religion offers absolute certainty about right and wrong; "god tells them" what it is. Even supposing that the aforementioned gods exist, and that the believers really know what the gods think, that still does not provide certainty, because any being no matter how powerful can still be wrong. Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.