If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides.

Si les triangles faisoient un Dieu, ils lui donneroient trois cotes.

Montesquieu

Persian Letters

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Topic

Nature of God God and man God

Author

Montesquieu

Source

Persian Letters

Medium

Novel

Genre

Epistolary novel

Language

French

Time

1721 1720s 18th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Montesquieu. Rica to Uzbek. 14th of the moon of Saphar, 1714.

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I said there was a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves.

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Time
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Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 4, ch. 5.

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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 4, ch. 5.

Another quote about Nature of God

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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God and man Nature of God Existence of God God

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Robert G. Ingersoll
Language
English
Time
1874 1870s 19th century
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Citation

Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Gods." c. 1872. Lecture.

Another quote originally in French

The head is ever the dupe of the heart.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Topic
Heart vs. mind

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld
Source
Reflections
Medium
Epigram
Language
French
Time
1678 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.