"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 199 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.”
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. II, preface (1898)
1890s
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Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
“Your version of the truth is the only one that matters.”
"Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths."
"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 199 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
Il n'y a qu'une sorte d'amour, mais il y en a mille différentes copies.
Maxim 74.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Voltaire
(1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
The critical review, or annals of literature, Volume XXVI http://books.google.es/books?id=aItKAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=es#v=onepage&q&f=false, by A Society of Gentlemen (1768) p. 450
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Voltaire / Quotes
Citas
Source: Jacob's Room (1922), Ch. 8
Context: The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
John D. Barrow, Between Inner and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-192-88041-1, Part 4, ch. 13: Why is the Universe Mathematical? (p. 88). Also found in Barrow's "The Mathematical Universe" http://www.lasalle.edu/~didio/courses/hon462/hon462_assets/mathematical_universe.htm (1989) and The Artful Universe Expanded (Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-192-80569-X, ch. 5, Player Piano: Hearing by Numbers, p. 250
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John D. Barrow
(1952–2020) British scientist
The Artful Universe (1995)
Context: If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.<!-- Ch. 5, p. 211
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
