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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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"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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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
Nature
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
Communication
"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
Man
"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
Heart
"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
Thought
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
Man
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"
Humor
"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
Chance
"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
Politics
"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Alimentary
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