“The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we …”

“The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.”

— Immanuel Kant

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Title: Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant
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A lecture at Königsberg (1775), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1946) by H. L. Mencken, p. 955

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Kant, Immanuel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

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