Thomas Aquinas quote: “Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”

“To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.”

Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer

Of Agriculture.

“I would stand with God against man, rather than with man against God.”

Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885–1954) Portuguese diplomat

Quoted in Bard The Complete History of the Holocaust (2001), p. 327; see also "Aristides de Sousa Mendes" at Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mendes.html.

“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist

K 21
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

“It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.”

Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god!”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.”

David Zindell (1952) American writer

Source: War in Heaven (1998), P. 175

“Now, as there is an infinity of possible universes in the Ideas of God, and as only one of them can exist, there must be a sufficient reason for God's choice, which determines him toward one rather than another. And this reason can be found only in the fitness, or the degrees of perfection, that these worlds contain, since each possible thing has the right to claim existence in proportion to the perfection it involves.”

Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) German mathematician and philosopher

Or, comme il y a une infinité d'univers possibles dans les idées de Dieu, et qu'il n'en peut exister qu'un seul, il faut qu'il y ait une raison suffisante du choix de Dieu qui le détermine à l'un plutôt qu'à l'autre. Et cette raison ne peut se trouver que dans la convenance, dans les degrés de perfection que ces mondes contiennent, chaque possible ayant droit de prétendre à l'existence à mesure de la perfection qu'il enveloppe.
La monadologie (53 & 54).
The Monadology (1714)

“Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) edited by Edward Henry Whinfield Book IV, Story IV : "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself"

“Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) edited by Edward Henry Whinfield Book IV, Story IV : "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself"

“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”

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