November 23, 2009
Wasn’t That a Man?
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. The smallest, tiniest intellect may be quite as valuable to society as the largest. It may be still more valuable to itself: it may have all the capacity for enjoyment that the wisest has. The purpose of man is like the purpose of the pollywog — to wriggle along as far as he can without dying; or to hang on until death takes him.

Quoted in Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic’s Anthology, edited by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice.


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UPDATE from the same source: “I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”

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Posted by Chuck Dupree at November 23, 2009 01:52 AM
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That was good, I didn't know that much about the guy. I like him more now. I love the last part about he would have suffered more... if he had been understood, that was good.

Posted by: Knowdoubt on November 23, 2009 5:11 AM

Is that a classic line, or what?

Posted by: Chuck Dupree on November 23, 2009 6:21 AM

And by the grace of God almighty , we have certainly got ourselves a government run by a bunch of pollywogs. Can't we hope for more?

Posted by: on November 23, 2009 6:59 AM
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