John Maynard Keynes on Sidgwick
He never did anything but wonder whether Christianity was true and prove that it wasn’t and hope that it was.
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There is no doubt about his moral goodness. And yet it is all so dreadfully depressing- no intimacy, no clear-cut crisp boldness. Oh, I suppose he was intimate but he didn’t seem to have anything to be intimate about except his religious doubts. And he really ought to have got over that a little sooner; because he knew that the thing wasn’t true perfectly well from the beginning.
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