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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."
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"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."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"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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"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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"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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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
Faith
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
Happiness
"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."
Family
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
Art
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
Love
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Life
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
Music
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
Existence
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