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"Why does God endow us with compassion?"
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
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"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""
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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part."
Man
"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
Happiness
"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
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"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."
Devotion
"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."
God
"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
Impulses
"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
Mind
"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."
People
"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
Approval
"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy."
Heart
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