"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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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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"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

"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."

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

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

"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

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

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"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."

Explore more quotes by Friedrich Schiller

"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

"Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful."

"The strong man is strongest when alone."

"The key to education is the experience of beauty."

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."

"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom."

"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in."

"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."