If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
ELIZABETH KALES If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
VOLTAIRE If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
KATHARINE WHITEHORN From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
KATHERINE WHITEHORN I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet ...
NAVAL RAVIKANT How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, a...
MARTIN BUBER If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respec...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
GABRIEL RIQUETI MIRABEAU If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If there was no Cosmic Ordering then it would have been necessary to invent it.
STEPHEN RICHARDS If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?
SHANNEN DOHERTY Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, i...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
EDDIE IZZARD If the barriers of society did not exist, a disability would not be a disability.
DONNA FORREST Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...
C.S. LEWIS A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have t...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I did not invent these figures. It did not come from me. What do I have to gain if I lie?
FRANCO TITO If the past could be changed, it would not exist. If the future could be stopped, it would not survi...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would ...
LISA SAMSON Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b...
SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did
it exist? I am glad I was not bo...
SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY I am thankful that I can be thankful, for if thankfulness did not exist my heart would be irretrieva...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional...
ORHAN PAMUK If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each ...
AYN RAND Crying does not move God because if it did we would all cry ourselves to being millionaire...
STANLEY KUJOKERA There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still hone...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature th...
R.C. SPROUL [IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler and other senior officials provided similar visions -- a world ...
HORST KOEHLER If love did not exist I would be so goddamn sane my poems would be billboards. Suburbia would be eno...
ANDREA GIBSON After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG If God does not exist, then everything is permitted
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If the word 'challenge did not exist, neither would 'success'! Conquer challenges one by one; if def...
SHANI LEE ANN HUDGENS Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k...
ANNIE DILLARD Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k...
ANNIE DILLARD I just think it would be easier to trust God if I had extra money to trust him with.
DONALD MILLER Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent ...
MAYA ANGELOU To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
VICTOR KOO In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
ALBERT CAMUS The Koran did not invent or introduce patriarchy.
MUHAMMAD KHALID MASUD It did send a message to a number of companies of how serious we are. We would prefer not to go the ...
JOE BEYERS If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit ...
JOHN TILLOTSON If God did not want me to be aldulterous, why did he make all these gorgeous women?
HERMAN VAN VEEN It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
BLAISE PASCAL God gave you the capacity to invent, work, create and to be brilliant.
NICOLE J. FORTUNE If God is such an almighty being, why did it take him 7 days to build earth?
JEFFREY FISCHER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if y...
ANNIE DILLARD It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not...
MATTHEW S. WILLIAMS I have not posed it. I don't think it would be necessary,
BILL BRADLEY If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation,...
ETIENNE VERMEERSCH In my mind, we were preparing not to have him since workouts in the spring. If we did have him, it w...
BOB BRATKOWSKI Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person yo...
DAVE SIM How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it con...
REBECCA MACKINNON Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find s...
KEN FOLLETT If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
ROGER ZELAZNY Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist...
C.S. LEWIS Every holiday I would want him to be involved in the holidays, even though he is not here. That does...
SHASTA GROENE God needs me. What would happen if there weren’t people like me? If the world were perfect, if eve...
J.J. MCAVOY If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.
T.K. NALIAKA Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have
punished me.
SWAMWRA OF BASRA If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISON I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was ove...
MIKE LYNCH "...If you did not see it with your own eyes, or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.
BRODI ASHTON If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?
SOURCE UNKNOWN If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist.
DAVID SOUL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI This state does not have capital punishment, and if it did ... you would not be the person to carry ...
JUDGE FRANCIS FECTEAU If we were not good at flood protection, the Netherlands would not exist.
JOS KUIJPERS If you want people to behave as Christians advocate, ... you should tell them that God does not exis...
GEORGE MONBIOT Thank God it was him. If he hadn't done it, who knows what would have happened?
BROOKE WILLIAMS Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a h...
JOAN OF ARC The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as...
MARIA MONTESSORI If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be u...
GEORGES COURTELINE If a person desires to be a humorist it is necessary that the people around him shall be at least as...
JAMES STEPHENS Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Franco...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) We have to be the bearers of bad news and if we find anything we would be a God send to find him.
LOU AMIGHETTI We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because ...
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