Jakob Abbadie Quotes

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One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages.

Jakob Abbadie

An abstract and distant speculation will not be stronger than the knowledge we have of the existence of our soul, which thinks, which doubts, which reasons...

Jakob Abbadie

I admit that the senses, the imagination and the heart they themselves do not tell us that there is no god, since these three faculties have not been given to us to be causes of error and illusion.

Jakob Abbadie

The difficulty they [atheists] have in imagining what God is, what he did before he created the world, forms a second bias in their minds. Finally, all the passions of the heart fight the truth of the existence of God, because this truth mortifies them all.

Jakob Abbadie

It is not very difficult, after all that has been said, to answer the famous question, whether there are true atheists in the world. We can answer with a short sentence: There are some who are so by their heart; but there cannot be any who are so by their spirit.

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