
“Who would have thought that becoming God would be such a hollow victory.”
Thanos, in The Thanos Quest (1990), Book 2
Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter IV The Spiritual Cabinet
“Who would have thought that becoming God would be such a hollow victory.”
Thanos, in The Thanos Quest (1990), Book 2
“My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.”
Senate Confirmation Hearing, reported in " Elena Kagan under fire from Republicans http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/jun/29/elena-kagan-barack-obama-supreme-court", The Guardian (29 June 2010).
Source: The Bowl of Saki: Thoughts for Daily Contemplation from the Sayings and Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
On Hinduism, On relation of Hinduism with Jainism and Buddhism
Autobiographical Essay (2001)
1780s, Letter to Peter Carr (1787)
Context: He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.
“If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.”
Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century (1985)