“ To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right. ”
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1910). copy citation
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
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| Source | Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays |
| Topic | God wrong |
| Date | 1910 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25447/25447-h/25447-h.htm |
Context
“It is poetic imagination, not science, which presents Time as despotic lord of the world, with all the irresponsible frivolity of a child. It is mysticism, too, which leads Heraclitus to assert the identity of opposites: "Good and ill are one," he says; and again: "To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right."
Much of mysticism underlies the ethics of Heraclitus. It is true that a scientific determinism alone might have inspired the statement: "Man's character is his fate"; but only a mystic would have said:”
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