A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander… - Saul Bellow

" "
A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining?

Saul Bellow

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

jewish holocaust gallows-humour evil metaphysics

English

Collect this quote

About Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Birth Name: Solomon Bellows

All quotes from Saul Bellow Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Saul Bellow:

Aldous Huxley Norman Mailer E. M. Forster Robertson Davies Anton Chekhov

Additional quotes by Saul Bellow

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When it was time to have them, there was no telling how I picked them from the air.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To… - Saul Bellow

About Saul Bellow

Also Known As

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Any AI

Additional quotes by Saul Bellow

Enhance Your Quote Experience