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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.


Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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ECKHART TOLLE A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater...
MICHAEL ANTHONY "I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
FRANK WEDEKIND If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VOLTAIRE God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Not so. Man created God in man's image.
GREG SWARTZ Imagination is thee ability to creat witch god gave us in witch god himself created man in his image...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA God created us in his image throw his imagination
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON God-fearing?! Why should man fear God? Human beings were created in the image of God. God is love, m...
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his o...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

(Notebooks)
VOLTAIRE It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has cre...
BéLA BARTóK The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
JOHN BARTH If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
VOLTAIRE The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.
VOLTAIRE Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...
ANNE LAMOTT It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God ...
RICK WARREN It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own imag...
ERIC HOFFER You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all...
ANNE LAMOTT The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have dema...
JIM HIGHTOWER I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and li...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates...
ANNE LAMOTT There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking...
THOMAS PAINE Thank God that the Bible cannot possibly be the word of God
DONALD MORGAN I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the w...
ELVIS PRESLEY It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus C...
JAMES E. FAUST If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dino...
MICHAEL CRICHTON God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON God created mankind in His image and likeness, remember? For some reason, you people always forget y...
STEFAN EMUNDS The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsib...
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibi...
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is t...
MORRIS WEST As it says in the Bible, God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in un...
DESMOND TUTU Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the imag...
ERIC HOFFER God made us all in his own image, yet not all of us are equal.
DUSTIN H. MATHENY Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
BIBLE We are created in God’s image
SUNDAY ADELAJA In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. Th...
FULTON OURSLER It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes
THOMAS PAINE The Bible is the word of God and his word is life itself.
PHIL BROWN It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a televi...
JIM BAKKER When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key...
WOODROW T. WILSON To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre...
TIM LAHAYE It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Bible is real clear that homosexuality is an abomination to God. So to put a homosexual on the s...
TOM LAWSON Here at Bethel, we believe we're not blessed unless we bless others. The Bible states, 'For God so l...
DONALD BAILEY [The Bible is] absolutely clear that God created human beings as male and female.
DON HORROCKS I helped raise mission teams to go to Asia and introduce God and the Bible to different parts of tha...
LARRY HENDERSON God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
LEO STRAUSS But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
LEO STRAUSS Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
DYAN CANNON God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY [One of the album's most poignant songs is its closing number, When God Made Me , sung from the pers...
NEIL YOUNG Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
WALTER LANG God would never make man in his image,
because that would then make him as vain as what man is.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.
JARED BROCK Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.
ASHWIN SANGHI A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS Our message is of truth, love and faith in a peaceful, respectful manner. We are created by God in G...
JENNIFER HALL We aren't praying for this evil person. He went against God. He went against the Bible. He betrayed ...
BARUCH MARZEL We love our pastor. The Bible tells us that reconciliation is the word of God. That's all it is. So ...
DAVID FOSTER The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in ...
JOHN JAY CHAPMAN what happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? that will make me god because a lo...
MARILYN MANSON The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. ...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON God and the Bible are a big part of a child's learning. Without that, there is a big void. We unapol...
ERIC MORRIS Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects ...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Humans create machine out of their image; God creates humans out of their image.
THANH LUU People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.
VOLTAIRE While the bible is GOD because the word of GOD is GOD, please understand that GOD cannot be containe...
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM I hate man more than I hate god because man created god.
DIPAK F. PAWAR She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING God created man, woman created Darwin, Darwin questioned God, and no one got over it!
CHARLIE C DRAKOBICH I tried hard to understand that there is no God But i failed . and now i chose to be smarter than to...
ANWAR DANI And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spi...
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA The vote demonstrates that we accept the notion that all human beings are created in the image of Go...
ALEXANDER M. SHAPIRO Men create the gods in their own image.
XENOPHANES God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...
JOHN PIPER The man who created religion was not God.
ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every...
SHANNON L. ALDER God created heaven on earth but man created hell.
SANTOSH KALWAR You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.
BRUCE WILKINSON To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre...
TIM LAHAYE If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
AUBREY DE GREY Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

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G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the hea...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on al...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still hone...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Ideas too are a life and a world.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this fo...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right co...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of th...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet c...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesse...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold peop...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of ju...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wr...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible infl...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Tem...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole t...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you ca...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a chi...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by po...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; o...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one h...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly th...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feel...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG