“Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool.”
![“The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.” quote by Soren Kierkegaard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45d/soren-kierkegaard-578_courses_the-idea-of-demonstrating-that-this-unkn_2623054.jpg)
![“[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.” quote by Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8b/terry-eagleton-1660_god_god-is-a-kind-of-perpetual-critique-of-i_1272039.jpg)
![“The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.” quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4df/pierre-joseph-proudhon-11634_asks_the-faults-of-which-we-ask-you-god-the-r_28053.jpg)
