Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Topic

Nature of God

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Tell My Horse

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1938, ch. 15.

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Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

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Topic
Fanaticism
Speaker
Carl Jung
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1935 1930s 20th century
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Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Lecture five of the Tavistock lectures. 1935, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Routledge, 2014, pt. 1, lecture 5.

Another quote about Nature of God

God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The System of Economic Contradictions

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Topic
Nature of God God

Author

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Source
The System of Economic Contradictions
Genre
Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
French
Time
1846 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. Systeme des contradictions economiques ou Philosophie de la misere [The System of Economic Contractictions, or Philosophy of Misery]. Paris: Chez Guilla umin et Cie, 1846, ch. 8.