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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God
Reason can never prove the existence of God
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend I and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times
God must love the common man, he made so many of them
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, will never mark the marble with his name
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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