“God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 20
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Second Homily, as translated by John Burnaby (1955), pp. 275-276
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)
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Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 30
Variant translations:
The world, an entity out of everything, was created by neither gods nor men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and regularly becoming extinguished.
This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out.
That which always was,
and is, and will be everlasting fire,
the same for all, the cosmos,
made neither by god nor man,
replenishes in measure
as it burns away.
Translated by Brooks Haxton
Numbered fragments
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
A History of the Work of Redemption including a View of Church History (1839).
“God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.”
Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891) German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823–1891)
Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
Quoted in "Philosophies of Mathematics" - Page 13 - by Alexander George, Daniel J. Velleman - Philosophy - 2002