"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."

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"It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

"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

God, Lie, Being, Reason

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"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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"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

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"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

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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 Joseph Joubert

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."

"Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles."

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."

"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."