The Maker of a universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Sinclair Lewis

Elmer Gantry

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Sabbath God and man

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Elmer Gantry

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 17.

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What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Nature of love Love

Author

Sinclair Lewis
Source
Elmer Gantry
Medium
Novel
Genre
Satire
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1927 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 20.

Another quote from the 1920s

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Limits of language Language

Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Another quote about God and man

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love

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God and man Nature of God Religion

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Robert A. Heinlein
Source
Time Enough for Love
Medium
Novel
Genre
Science fiction
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Heinlein, Robert A. "Intermission." Time Enough for Love. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.