“Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.”
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Context: Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason. Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity. When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to please the Giver of that precious gift.
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Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725–1798Related quotes
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
Letters
Indestructible Spirit Conference at La Paz, UFW Headquarters in Keene, California (11 January 1991)
Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 1: The Issue Before Us, p 14
“Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.”
The Curse of Chalion (2000)
Context: "Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you."… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.
XVI. Concerning sacrifices and other worships, that we benefit man by them, but not the Gods.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.”
Everybody's Political What's What http://books.google.com/books?id=JSwBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22we+have+no+reason+to+suppose+that+we+are+the+Creator's+last+word%22&pg=PA234#v=onepage (1944)
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