“Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity?
Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all?
Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul
Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?”

“Man made God in his own image…”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

“Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.”

Jonathan Franzen book Purity

“You are that rarest of creatures: a man with the wisdom to see beyond his own time.”

Alastair Reynolds book The Prefect

“In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause:”

Thomas Hobbes book Leviathan

“The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

“The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.”

William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) United States Secretary of State