Dialogue

 1 Parme|    must therefore attribute to God. But then see what follows:
 2 Parme|     But then see what follows: God, having this exact knowledge,
 3 Parme|        Yet, surely, to deprive God of knowledge is monstrous.’—‘
 4 Parme|   ourselves. For conceiving of God more under the attribute
 5 Parme|        an ancient Eleatic. ‘If God is, what follows? If God
 6 Parme|       God is, what follows? If God is not, what follows?’ Or
 7 Parme|    what follows?’ Or again: If God is or is not the world;
 8 Parme|        is not the world; or if God is or is not many, or has
 9 Parme|        divisible. Or again: if God is or is not identical with
10 Parme|     almost taking the place of God. Theology, again, is full
11 Parme| suspect that under the name of God even Christians have included
12 Parme|      makes the reflection that God is not a person like ourselves—
13 Parme|     the two alternatives, that God is or that He is not. Yet
14 Parme|  philosophy takes us away from God; a great deal brings us
15 Parme|        one is more likely than God to have this most exact
16 Parme|      Certainly.~But then, will God, having absolute knowledge,
17 Parme|      has been admitted.~And if God has this perfect authority,
18 Parme|      said Socrates, to deprive God of knowledge is monstrous.~