"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

God, First, Wishes

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"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

"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

"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

God, Lonely, Play, Trying

"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

God, Earth, End

"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

God, Sky, Space, Stars

"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."

Voltaire, French Writer

God, Existence, Impossibility

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

God, Hope, Man, Word

"The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

God, Gods, Day

"The dog is the god of frolic."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"The wisest men follow their own direction."

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"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?"

Philosophy, God, Humanity, Existence, Question

"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."

Ethics, Morality, Deception, Guilt

"To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender."

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"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."

"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."

"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."

"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."

"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

"The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more."

"The dog is the god of frolic."

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"The wisest men follow their own direction."

"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?"

"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."

"Your very silence shows you agree."

"I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once."

"The coward despairs."

"This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."

"Sufficiency's enough for men of sense."

"Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream."

"To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender."