"God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.












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"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
"It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
"Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not u...
"If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense po...
"If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.
"An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster.
"S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
"The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose c...
"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
"I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood fa...
"Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.
"But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in ha...