Inspiring quotes to begin the New Year

"If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated"

Voltaire, LoSottisier, XVIIIth century

"God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising that his faults should be in reasonable proportion"

Samuel Butler (II), Notebooks, 1912

"Si Dios fuera de repente condenado a vivir la vida que ha inflingido en los hombres, se suicidaría"

Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-95) Pensées d'album

"From the moment that a religion solicits the aid of philosophy its ruin is inevitable"

Heinrich Heine, 1835

"God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through"

Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensés et autres, 1942