William Gaddis  - Quotes

 Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high grass, never see the boar in the thicket. Only a religious person can perpetrate sacrelige: and if its blasphemy reaches the heart of the question; if it investigates deeply enough to unfold, not the pattern, but the materials of the pattern, and the necessity of a pattern; if it questions so deeply that the doubt it arouses is frightening and cannot be dismissed; then it has done its true sacreligious [sic] work, in the service of its adversary: the only service that nihilism can ever perform.



(unused 1949 prefatory note to The Recognitions)
 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'.

One day he found something so alien and said,

'I can't believe what I just saw'.

Then the other man with different credo,

'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'.

One day he found something so alien and said,

'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'.
 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy. 

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