John Updike Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

  John Updike

  Atheist, Humanity, Intellectual

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.141, Random House

• The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

  John Updike

  Passion, Government, Essence

• Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

  John Updike

  Moving, Light, Darkness

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

• The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

  John Updike

  Writing, Humanity, May

  "Revisiting John Updike's 'Fresh Air' Interviews". www.npr.org. March 16, 2012.

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