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"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes…

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It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God…
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can…
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme…
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to…
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal…
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man…
The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart…
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this…
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay,… — Annie Besant
If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? — Boethius
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can… — David Brainerd
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good… — Edmund Burke
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back… — Albert Camus
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a… — Aristotle
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. — William Shakespeare
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the… — Alexander McQueen
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting… — Gottfried Leibniz

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