Rabelais Quotes
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes . God's laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Molière, He must needs also be Aristophanes and Rabelais .
sri aurobindo— Sri Aurobindo : The Hour of God, and Other Writings (1970); variant "To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughed; Heine was nearer the mark when he found in Him the divine Aristophanes" in Mother India (1957)
His religion at best is an anxious wish, like that of Rabelais , a great Perhaps.
thomas carlyle— Burns; compare: "The grand perhaps", Browning, Bishop Bloughram's Apology.
