Whether Voltaire really said that if God didn’t exist, humanity would need to invent him, is unimportant when compared to the truth articulated here. Faith in the divine and the yearning for a presence inhabiting some dimension beyond our own are instincts irrepressible in our species.
11 October 2018, The Tablet
The art of yearning
Artist Govind Nath works on a figure for the Hindu festival of Durga Puja
Photo: PA/DPA, Karen Bauer
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