David Hume
Philosopher, Historian
"It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause"
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Calvin Coolidge
Politician
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
Edward Young
Poet, Playwright
"How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!"
Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken."
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"A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity."
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"My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity."
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"thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast."
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"We should worship as though the deity were present."
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"A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity"
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"The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity."
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"It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods."
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"When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know."
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"The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet."
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"The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will."
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"Midway from Nothing to the Deity!"
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"Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!"
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"Man, like Deity, creates in his own image."
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"Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?"
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"By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations."
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"Nature is saturated with Deity."
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"The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity."
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"Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it."
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"For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity."
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"If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity."
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