Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is. Hans Jonas Read Quote
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper. Hans Jonas Read Quote
As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count. Hans Jonas Read Quote
It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention. Hans Jonas Read Quote
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness. Hans Jonas Read Quote
Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it. Hans Jonas Read Quote
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed. Hans Jonas Read Quote
The latest revelation – from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree – is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. Hans Jonas Read Quote
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life. Hans Jonas Read Quote
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos. Hans Jonas Read Quote
