“What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 239)
“The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.”
As quoted in Quotations from the Wayside (1998) by Brenda Wong, p. 78.
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Miguel de Unamuno
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The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God
Context: And He is the God of the humble, for in the words of the Apostle, God chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (I Cor. i. 27) And God is in each of us in the measure in which one feels Him and loves Him. "If of two men," says Kierkegaard, "one prays to the true God without sincerity of heart, and the other prays to the an idol with all the passion of an infinite yearning, it is the first who really prays to the idol, while the second really prays to God." It would be better to say that the true God is He to whom man truly prays and whom man truly desires. And there may even be a truer revelation in superstition itself than in theology.
San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1933), Prologue
“I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.”
Bobby Fischer
(1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Interview by William Lombardy, 1972 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles7.html
1970s
Edvin Kanka Cudic
(1988) Human rights defender
Edvin Kanka Ćudić, interview in the Novi https://novi.ba/clanak/76314/edvin-kanka-cudic-za-novi-ba-bakir-izetbegovic-ne-bi-posjetio-kazane-da-nije-bilo-nas/. (2016)
James H. Cone
(1938–2018) American theologian
This is what the black revolution means.
Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 136
