"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

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"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

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

Voltaire, French 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's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

God, Truth, People, Idea

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

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"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

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"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

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"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

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"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

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"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

"Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before."

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."

"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."