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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

George Santayana
God, Space, Heaven
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

George Santayana
God, Atheism, Firsts
George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.126, 谷月社

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

George Santayana
God, Philosophy, Men
George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason ; Or, The Phases of Human Progress. One-volume Ed”

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