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- A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious… — Herbert Spencer
- Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having… — Charles Darwin
- But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or… — Robert Boyle
- Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal… — Avicenna
- If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power… — Unknown Author
- Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things.… — Thomas Paine
- Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus
- Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient… — John Owen
- My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of… — Antony Flew
- ...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes… — Gregory of Nazianzus