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“If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.”

“I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.”

Christ Ignorance Divine Crosses Philosophical Sake Vanity

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.”

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Book:Josiah Royce: Selected Writings

Source: Josiah Royce: Selected Writings

“Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”

Reason Divine Philosophical

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”

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Book:Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings

Source: Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings

“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.”

Divine Worship Fairs Philosophical

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.”

“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”

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Author:Confucius

“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”

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Author:Plato

“Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.”