This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Origin of the universe Creation of the world Creation God

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Isaac Newton

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Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Mathematician Physicist Scientist

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Scholium Generale. [General Scolium]. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.] 1726.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. Scholium Generale. [General Scolium]. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.] Translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995.

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Another quote by Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Cause and effect Physics Science

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Isaac Newton
Source
Principia
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1726 1720s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms or Laws of Motion: Law 3." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.] 1726.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms or Laws of Motion: Law 3." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.] Translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995.

Another quote from the 1720s

I said there was a Society of Men among us, bred up from their Youth in the Art of proving by Words multiplied for the Purpose, that White is Black, and Black is White, according as they are paid. To this Society all the rest of the People are Slaves.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

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Lawyers

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Jonathan Swift
Source
Gulliver's Travels
Genre
Satire Travel writing
Language
English
Time
1726 1720s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms." Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. Benjamin Motte, 1726, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. "A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms." Gulliver's Travels. Signet, 2008, ch. 5.

Another quote about God

God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science

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Existence of God God Decline of religion Atheism Human nature

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
The Gay Science
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1882 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. [The Gay Science]. 1882. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, March 1974.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, 1974, aphorism, 261.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

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Topic
Downsides of education Education Ignorance

Author

Alexander Pope
Source
An Essay on Criticism
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1711 1710s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Pope, Alexander, published anonymously. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 215-218.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, I. 215-218.

Another quote originally in Latin

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Thomas More

Utopia

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Gold

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Thomas More
Source
Utopia
Genre
Satire Political literature
Language
Latin
Time
1516 1520s 16th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

More, Thomas. Utopia. Hapsburg, 1516, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

More, Thomas. Utopia, trans. Paul Turner. Penguin, 2003, bk. 2, ch. 6.