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«Once you accept the existence of God-however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him-then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.»
Author: Morris West
| About:
God
| Keywords:
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«Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
existence, introduce, introduces, introducing, politics, republic
«The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Existence,
Freedom,
Rebellion
| Keywords:
absolutely, Absolutely Free, Act of, deal, existence, Free World, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion, to become, unfree
«Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.»
«The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.»
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
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«Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
absolute, absolutes, absolute magnitude, actual, certainly, circle, come into, exactly, existence, have-not, in a circle, known, line, one line, straight, straight line, There was, The Beginning
«The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
come to, existence, forgetting, proved
«Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
approve, approving, blindfold, blindfolded, boldness, existence, existence of God, homage, question, the existence of God, with boldness
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