good -> heaven, bad -> hell
September 7, 2010 7:05 AM   Subscribe

Agnostic Quote Filter: I'm trying to find the exact quotation and its author... Something to the effect that man knows good and invents heaven, he knows bad/evil and invents hell. He knows some earthly and pathetic manifestation of a feeling/emotion/sentiment and creates extremes like heaven and hell from it.

I was thinking of Ingersoll but I can't seem to find that particular quote. Does this quote ring any bells?
posted by ReWayne to Religion & Philosophy (2 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Paradise Lost, Book I, line 254?

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
posted by tivalasvegas at 7:23 AM on September 7, 2010


Response by poster: Thats a nice quote, but not exactly what Im looking for... I'm quite sure it isn't from poetry.
posted by ReWayne at 7:43 AM on September 7, 2010


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