R. J. Hollingdale Quotes

• I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

  R. J. Hollingdale

  Death, Stars, Science

  "RJ Hollingdale" by Carol Diethe, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2001.

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• The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche considered that evolution presented a correct picture of the world, but that it was a disastrous picture. His philosophy was an attempt to produce a new world-picture which took Darwinism into account but was not nullified by it.

  R. J. Hollingdale

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  R. J. Hollingdale (2001). “Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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