S.T. Joshi Quotes

#1. God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

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#2. [Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

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#3. I am He who howls in the night; I am He who moans in the snow; I am He who hath never seen light; I am He who mounts from below. My car is the car of Death; My wings are the wings of dread; My breath is the north wind's breath; My prey are the cold and the dead.

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#4. When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

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#5. You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

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#6. Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.

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#7. I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.

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#8. You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

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#9. My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

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#10. weaving his way across

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#11. I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

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#12. Any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their authority and impair the intellectual vigor of the young. ("Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?" [1954], Y 196)

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#13. I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

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#14. The prototypical definition of fascism is: It is not enough that I do (or not do) a certain thing; everyone must do (or not do) that thing.

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