"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."

God, Man, Philosophy

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"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."

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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."

Voltaire, French Writer

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Reform, that we may preserve."

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"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."

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"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"

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"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."

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"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

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"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."

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"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."

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"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."

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"I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors."

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