God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Topic

Nature of God

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

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Sigmund Freud
Source
Totem and Taboo
Genre
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Language
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Time
1913 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo Some Similarities in the Soul Life of the Wild and the Neurotic]. Beacon Press, 1913, ch. 4, sect. 6. Originally published in Imago, c. 1912.