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“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
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- quote
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- 2026-07-04
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- 1957c8629e9c675196bdc80770bbd5edfa68c8264b89c0e437d17fa5c6dd1cd2
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“But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar.”
Lord Byron
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."”
Plutarch
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Thomas Noon Talfourd
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