We have no right to pick out all that is noblest and fairest in man, to project these qualities into space, and to call them God. We only thus create an ideal figure, a purified, ennobled, 'magnified' Man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.