If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Music is presented as the sole evidence the author needed for God's existence.
- In plain terms
- Music alone convinced him there is a God.
- What can you take from it?
- Art can inspire spiritual belief.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What convinces you of meaning?
- How does art move you?
Another view
It equates subjective experience with objective proof of divinity.
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