"God is another name for human intelligence raised……" — William Ellery Channing
"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
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William Ellery Channing
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53 Quotes by William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing has 53 quotes on this site.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual…
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence,…
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
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Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the…
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for…
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of…
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to…
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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