"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."

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"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

God,

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

God, Eyes

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

God, Humor, Performance, Being

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

God,

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

God,

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

God, Truth, People, Idea

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

God, Animals, Being, Disease

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"A civil servant doesn't make jokes."

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"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa."

Society

"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."

Life

"A man with a soul is not like every other man."

Soul

"We have not the time to take our time."

Time

"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been."

Will

"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Explore more quotes by Eugene Ionesco

"A civil servant doesn't make jokes."

"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa."

"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."

"A man with a soul is not like every other man."

"We have not the time to take our time."

"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been."

"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well."

"A nose that can see is worth two that sniff."

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."