Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

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Truth Philosophers

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Isaac Newton

Language

Latin

Time

1664 1660s 17th century

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Mathematician Physicist Scientist

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Newton, Isaac. Questiones Quaedam Philosophcae. c. 1664.

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God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them.

Isaac Newton

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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Atomism Creation of the world God and creation

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Isaac Newton
Source
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light
Medium
Treatise
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1704 1700s 18th century
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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

Another quote from the 1660s

Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking water and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo.

Asai Ryoi

Tales of the Floating World

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Enjoying life

Author

Asai Ryoi
Source
Tales of the Floating World
Language
Japanese
Time
1661 1660s 17th century
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Citation

Asai, Ryoi. 浮世物語 [Tales of the Floating World]. c. 1666, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Another quote about Truth

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Topic
The painful truth Truth

Author

David Foster Wallace
Source
Infinite Jest
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1996 1990s 20th century
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Citation

Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Another quote originally in Latin

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian

Institutio Oratoria

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Consequences of lying Liars

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Quintilian
Source
Institutio Oratoria
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
95 90s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 4, ch. 1, sect. 91.