“If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 27
“If Men, and Mortal Powers you not regard,
Yet know, the Gods both Right and Wrong record.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
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Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Armies of the Night (1968)
Robert Anton Wilson book Prometheus Rising
Source: Prometheus Rising (1983), Ch. 1 : The Thinker & The Prover, p. 25
Context: Comparative religion and philosophy show that the Thinker can regard itself as mortal, as immortal, as both mortal and immortal (the reincarnation model) or even as non-existent (Buddhism). It can think itself into living in a Christian universe, a Marxist universe, a scientific-relativistic universe, or a Nazi universe—among many possibilities.
As psychiatrists and psychologists have often observed (much to the chagrin of their medical colleagues), the Thinker can think itself sick, and can even think itself well again.
The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves.
To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible horrors earlier in this century, if the Thinker thinks that all Jews are rich, the Prover will prove it. It will find evidence that the poorest Jew in the most run-down ghetto has hidden money somewhere.
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999)
The Golden Verses
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Decisions http://byub.org/findatalk/details.asp?ID=4343 BYU Devotional, February 6, 1977.
“I know you’re sane and you know you’re sane. But what if we’re both wrong?”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) American writer
Death of the Dreammaster (published in Martin H. Greenberg (ed.) The Further Adventures of Batman (1989), p. 24
Short fiction
“You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.”
Le Corbusier (1887–1965) architect, designer, urbanist, and writer
Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.
Le Corbusier's reply upon learning that the housing project he had designed at Pessac had been altered by its inhabitants, quoted by Philippe Boudon, Lived-In Architecture: Pessac Revisited (1969) [trans. Gerald Onn]
Attributed from posthumous publications