The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
Giacomo CasanovaGod, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
Giacomo CasanovaGod ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
Giacomo Casanova