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3845 | Without God there is no intelligibility or value [Sartre] |
Full Idea: For the atheist existentialist there disappears with God all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. (Dostoevsky wrote "If God did not exist, everything would be permitted"). | |
From: Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism and Humanism [1945], p.33) |