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God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change.

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

On Medicine (1020)

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Familiar Medical Quotations (1968)

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Religious law makes it illegal for the ignorant to drink wine, but intelligence makes it legal for the intellectual.

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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.

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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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