What God is to the world parents are to their children.

What God is to the world parents are to their children.

Philo
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What God is to the world parents are to their children.

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I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

Phoebe Philo
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Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Philo of Alexandria
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The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune

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The Limit of Happiness Is the Presence of GodBut it is something great that Abraham asks, namely that God shall not pass by nor remove to a distance and leave his soul desolate and empty (Gen. 18:3). For the limit of happiness is the presence of God, which completely fills the whole soul with his whole incorporeal and eternal light.

Philo of Alexandria
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Johnny Carson
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She took a deep breath. "Let me begin again." If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head, Christine would bring it. She closed her eyes and accessed the most expensive Philo Department vocabulary words she possessed."Well, as human beings, when we immanentize the eschaton…

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In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean.

Thomas Henry Huxley, The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study
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