"Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous."

God, Man

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"Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous."

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

Johannes Sebastian Bach, German Composer

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

Julie Harris, American Actress

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

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"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

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"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped."

John Piper, American Clergyman

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"I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

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"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry."

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"A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named."

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"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her."

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"If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry."

Family

"Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit."

Genius

"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures."

Society

"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."

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"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality."

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"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."

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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."

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