Quote#Solitude
No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of…
Quote byJosé Rizal · 1861–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893).
English (original)
No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.
— José Rizal
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