Browsing Quotes By Philip Vellacott
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[Prometheus] believed in, and wanted to help, the human race as it is, full of both noble achievement and pitiable squalor, honoring both goodness and wickedness; a race where virtue, if rare, is at least costly.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God, the playwright says, is concerned that man should learn wisdom, and has marked out the path; and it is a path of suffering. Men are in one sense free to learn or not to learn; but the painful condition of learning is inexorable. The nature of God, in other words, comprises two elements or principles, one harsh, the other gentle.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!