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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""
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Personal Development

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
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"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."
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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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"The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again."
Thought

"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
Perception

"All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!"
God

"Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together."
Time

"It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!"
Education

"Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need."
Reflection

"The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined."
Art

"Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system."
People

"Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression."
Time

"It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them."
Creativity
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