May 13, 2008

Crazy Old Man!


"The word 'god' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this."

Albert Einstein

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One strength of the Communist system ... is that it has some of the characteristics of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
(Albert Einstein, Out Of My Later Years, 1950)

Anonymous said...

(...)
- Sabato: ¿Y qué opina de Dios, Borges?

- Borges: (Solemnemente irónico) ¡Es la máxima creacion de la literatura fantastica!. Lo que imaginaron Wells, Kafka o Poe no es nada comparado con lo que imaginó la teologia. La idea de un ser perfecto, omnipotente, todopoderoso es realmente fantástica.
(...)

:-)