Quotes from Jumpers — Tom Stoppard
1937–2025 Czech Republic
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It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.
Jumpers (1972)
There is presumably a calendar date — a moment — when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
Jumpers (1972)
Including, I suppose, death. ... It's an interesting view of atheism, as a sort of crutch for those who can't bear the reality of God.
Jumpers (1972)
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
Jumpers (1972)
Language is a finite instrument crudely applied to an infinity of ideas, and one consequence of the failure to take account of this is that modern philosophy has made itself ridiculous by analysing such statements as, "This is a good bacon sandwich," or, "Bedser had a good wicket."
Jumpers (1972)