Advantage Quote by Honore de Balzac Download Open image “A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.” — Honore de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advantage Atheist Chance Deist Eye
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Sir Antony Flew was probably a deist. The deist is a rather curious figure in the atheist spectrum, for the fundamental reason that he… — Bō Jinn Copy Share Image
“As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Pantheists don’t believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. — Franklin P Jones Copy Share Image
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it’s nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The liberality of the age, or in other words the weakening of the obstinate prejudice, which makes men unable to see what is before their eyes because it is contrary to their expectations, has caused it to be very commonly admitted that a Deist may be truly religious: but if religion stands for any graces of character and not for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in… — Kelly Blatz Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
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