Call to the Nation
Context: Buddha is the only prophet who said, I do not care to know your various theories about God. What is the use of discussing all the subtle doctrines about the soul? Do good and be good.
Page 282 of An Anthropologist On Mars By Oliver Sacks
Scientists
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.”
Orestes, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 18 (p. 221)
Address to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Boston, Massachusetts (30 July 1903), printed in "Account of the Boston Riot," Boston Globe (31 July 1903) http://web.archive.org/20071031084056/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.7/html/235.html
Quotes from him, Csillag születik (talent show between 2011-2012)
“What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.”
Journal entry (11 June 1916), p. 72e and 73e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
Context: What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.
That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field.
That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning.
This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it.
That life is the world.
That my will penetrates the world.
That my will is good or evil.
Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.
The meaning of life, i. e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.
To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
“I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.”
Source: The Running Dream
“If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?”
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 383)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
