The short story in question is “The Dagger with Wings”, originally published in The Incredulity of Father Brown.
That said, I don’t quite understand why this constitutes a Rationality Quote.
To me, the lesson is that when someone appeals to your intuitions—you can just say no.
“Don’t you feel there must be a supreme being, that everything has a purpose and a place in the grand order of things?”
“No.”
(Fun story, incidentally.)
The short story in question is “The Dagger with Wings”, originally published in The Incredulity of Father Brown.
That said, I don’t quite understand why this constitutes a Rationality Quote.
To me, the lesson is that when someone appeals to your intuitions—you can just say no.
“Don’t you feel there must be a supreme being, that everything has a purpose and a place in the grand order of things?”
“No.”
(Fun story, incidentally.)