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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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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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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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"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
Imagination
"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language
"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."
Work
"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
Poetry
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
Age
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
Criticism
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
Act
"That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness."
Vision
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