150 | We cannot conceive of God, so we have to think of Him as an immortal version of ourselves [Plato] |
2802 | Men imagine gods to be of human shape, with a human lifestyle [Aristotle] |
2635 | The gods are happy, so virtuous, so rational, so must have human shape [Cicero] |
22732 | The perfections of God were extrapolations from mankind [Sext.Empiricus] |
19085 | Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides] |
9112 | We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures [William of Ockham] |
7411 | The attributes of God just show our inability to conceive his nature [Hobbes] |
7830 | A talking triangle would say God is triangular [Spinoza] |
2185 | The idea of an infinite, intelligent, wise and good God arises from augmenting the best qualities of our own minds [Hume] |
6202 | In all naturalistic concepts of God, if you remove the human qualities there is nothing left [Kant] |
6917 | God is the essence of thought, abstracted from the thinker [Hegel, by Feuerbach] |
19452 | The nature of God is an expression of human nature [Feuerbach] |
6903 | If God is only an object for man, then only the essence of man is revealed in God [Feuerbach] |
6911 | God is for us a mere empty idea, which we fill with our own ego and essence [Feuerbach] |
6923 | God is what man would like to be [Feuerbach] |
23041 | God is the realisation of the possibilities of each man's self [Green,TH] |
19603 | Why is God so boring, and why does God resemble humanity so little? [Cioran] |
7470 | During the rise of civilizations, the main gods changed from female to male [Watson] |