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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies
The gods too are fond of a joke
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God
God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
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