"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

God, Man

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"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

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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

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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

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"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

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"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."

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"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

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"It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called "human nature" is but one of its many manifestations - and often a pathological one - and the function of such mistaken definition usually has been to defend a particular type of society as being the necessary one."

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"The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market-it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself."

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"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

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"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought."

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"Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain."

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"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."

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"Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning."

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"People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult."

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