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I am of opinion that the revelation of God can only be established by the wisdom of the doctrine, not by miracles, or in other words by ignorance.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- God
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894An Inland Voyage (1878).
- Religion
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (1955), p. 80
- God
Man is infinitely concerned about the infinity to which he belongs, from which he is separated, and for which he is longing.
Paul Tillich1886–1965Systematic Theology (1951–63)
All tales may come true; and yet, at the last, redeemed, they may be as like and unlike the forms that we give them as Man, finally redeemed, will be like and unlike the fallen that we know.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973On Fairy-Stories (1939)
- Writing
You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
?UnattributedOften credited to C. S. Lewis