Algernon Charles Swinburne: Quotations

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

“Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt:
We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?”

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, st. 3

“Two and two may be four: but four and four are not eight:
Fate and God may be twain: but God is the same thing as fate.”

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, st. 5

“Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which:
The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch.”

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, st. 7