"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."

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"The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."

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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

God, Civilization

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"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."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

William James, American Philosopher

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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

God,

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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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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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

God, Men, Nurses

"No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God."

Roger Williams, English Theologian

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"I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one."

Change,

"I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general."

Being,

"Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory."

Man, Men, Act, Memory, Perceptions

"Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited."

God, Positive, Limits, Nothing

"Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things."

Nature, Atoms, Now, Word

"This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God."

God, Lie, Reason

"There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible."

Truth, Fact

"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."

Reality, Unity

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."

Music, Being, Mind, Pleasure

"I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature."

Nature, Experience, Idea, Possibility