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If God Were Not A Necessary Being Of Himself, He Might Almost Seem To Be Made For The Use And Benefit Of Men.
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If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem
to be made for the use and benefit of men.
Related:
Laws were almost always made *by* men, but not *for* men.
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god.
He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam....
Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you
for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them....
Science has made gods of us before we were even worthy of being men. -- Jean Rostand
If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use
but ir is make use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything solemn and serious....
The meaning of here and now is beautifully illustrated by a Zen story of a monk who was being chased by two tigers.
He came to the edge of a cliff. He looked back - the tigers were almost upon him....
An Hacker there was, one of the finest sort Who controlled the system
graphics was his sport. A manly man, to be a wizard able...
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Aristippus, iv...
Swords were given to men, that none might be slaves...