“Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good...” — Hans Jonas Quote

“Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.”

“The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.”

“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.”

“The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.”

“Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.”

“In fact, I schedule my day in a way so that I can pack in every aspect of what I enjoy, whether it's being with my kids or my workout sessions and on top of it, I will absolutely be a hands-on working person.”