Frasi di Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Data di nascita: 21. Luglio 1934
Data di morte: 27. Novembre 2019
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller è stato un regista teatrale, attore e conduttore televisivo britannico, oltre che autore, umorista e medico, ma soprattutto regista di opera.
Mentre faceva il suo tirocinio da medico e si specializzava in neurologia, alla fine degli anni 1950, si fece notare, nel 1960, per il suo ruolo nella commedia Beyond the Fringe con gli altri scrittori/interpreti Peter Cook, Dudley Moore e Alan Bennett.
Miller iniziò a fare il regista di opere nel 1970 e da allora è diventato uno dei più importanti registi d'opera del mondo, con diverse produzioni classiche al suo attivo. La sua più nota produzione è probabilmente il suo Rigoletto del 1982 ambientato nella Little Italy di New York nell'ambiente della mafia statunitense. Ai primi tempi fece il regista al Royal National Theatre e poi all'Old Vic Theatre. Come scrittore e presentatore ha realizzato più di una dozzina di documentari per la BBC ed è diventato un personaggio televisivo noto e familiare al pubblico intellettuale sia nel Regno Unito che negli Stati Uniti d'America.
Frasi Jonathan Miller
„Although he never admitted himself to be an atheist as such, he was clearly and unarguably the most vividly elegant and eloquent skeptic of them all. I'm referring, of course, to the great Scottish philosopher David Hume.“
Episode two: "Noughts and Crosses".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
„[In casual conversation] The reason why I feel relatively indifferent to [the Anglican Church of England] is it's lost its power, and it's so desperately keen to solicit support that they're willing to throw God out of the window in order to retain it. God for the many of the Anglicans is nothing more than a sort of awkward geriatric relative, kept upstairs, who might be embarrassingly coming downstairs, incontinently, and cause trouble.“
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
„Perhaps I was too dumb, or just too interested in cricket or in girls, to ask myself any questions about religion. If I had not been, I might have, inevitably, asked myself questions that have troubled skeptics and unbelievers for as long as men and women have been skeptical or have lacked belief. "Is there really no God? And if there really is no supernatural dimension to the universe, why have so many people throughout history and in so many different cultures thought there was?"“
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
„There were academics and theologians who spent hours calculating what they thought was the precise age of the Earth, on the basis of the Biblical account of it. And as early as 1650, James Ussher had come to the startlingly precise conclusion that the Earth was created in 4004 B. C. on October the 22nd – in the evening, apparently. What God had been doing that morning is still open to conjecture.“
Episode three: "The Final Hour".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
„Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers.“
… Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
„Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers. … Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.“
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
„Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions.“
Episode two: "Noughts and Crosses".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
„While the early deists were busy reconstructing Christianity, at the same time being very careful to avoid the accusation of atheism, the world of science had been steadily progressing.“
Episode two: "Noughts and Crosses".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
