Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - God Quotes

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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg