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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

— Julian Huxley Religion without Revelation (1957)

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered.

The New Divinity (1964)

The world of things entered your infant mind
To populate that crystal cabinet.

Poem in Essays of a Biologist (1923)

In the actual duration of his life, the individual ranges from the bacterium's hour to the big tree's five thousand years.

The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)

Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents.

The New Divinity (1964)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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