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"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"
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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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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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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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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
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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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"It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason."
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"A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse."
Sex
"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"
God
"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
Nature
"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart."
Death
"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
Virtue
"The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized."
Society
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."
Death
"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
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"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."
Woman
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