“God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.”
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“And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.”
“If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.”
“God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.”
“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.”
“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.”
“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.”
“It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.”
“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”
“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
“Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.”
“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”
“God's finger touched him, and he slept.”
“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”
“It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.”
“God's dice always have a lucky roll.”
“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”
“Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.”
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”