Chapman Cohen on God

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• I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

  Mark Twain1835–1910

  • Animals

• We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

  Gene Roddenberry1921–1991

• I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow1857–1938Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in “Breaking the Last Taboo” (1996) by James A. Haught

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Popular quotes

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy