God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

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• Samuel Butler:

  Let every man be true and every god a liar.

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  And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

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  Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

• Samuel Butler:

  If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will w

• Samuel Butler:

  To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I k

• Samuel Butler:

  God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

• Samuel Butler:

  The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his relig

• Samuel Butler:

  It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as t

• Samuel Butler:

  The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next

• Samuel Butler:

  Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the wan