“Did God truly build and populate a small planet for His own purposes; perhaps merely to relieve His boredom?”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 294)
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Introduction to an 1879 edition.
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Martin Luther as quoted in Tappert, Theodore G. (1959). The Book of Concord: the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, p. 595
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 293.
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Peace and the Public Mind (1935)
Context: We use power, of course, in the international fields in a way which is the exact contrary to the way in which we use it within the state. In the international field, force is the instrument of the rival litigants, each attempting to impose his judgment upon the other. Within the state, force is the instrument of the community, the law, primarily used to prevent either of the litigants imposing by force his view upon the other. The normal purpose of police — to prevent the litigant taking the law into his own hands, being his own judge — is the precise contrary of the normal purpose in the past of armies and navies, which has been to enable the litigant to be his own judge of his own rights when in conflict about them with another.
“Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God — but to create Him.”
"The Mind of the Machine" in Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations (1972)
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