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Deity Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him…
- The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as…
- A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of…
- The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is…
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- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
- Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation… — Leonard Cohen
- Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have… — Baron de Montesquieu
- I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for… — George Washington
- Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement… — Ellen G. White
- Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national… — Rebecca Harding Davis