Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Religion
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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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The expression divine service should cease to be applied to church attendance and be applied instead to good deeds.