"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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"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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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

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

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

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"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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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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