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"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
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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."
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"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."
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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."
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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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"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more."
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"The dog is the god of frolic."
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
Duty


"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
Psychology


"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
Intelligence


"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
Certainty


"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less."
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"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Man
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