"It would be a sign of great simplicity to think that the world was created in six days, or indeed at all in time; [...] Time is a thing posterior to the world. Therefore it would be correctly said that the world was not created in time, but that time had its existence in consequence of the world. For it is the motion of the heaven that has displayed the nature of time."

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Source : "Allegories of the Sacred Laws". Book I, §2. Translated by C. D. Yonge in "The works of Philo Judaeus", Vol. 1, pp. 52 - 53, 1854.

Philo

#Thinking Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 31-33, Sicelides, act II, scene 4, 1922.
“Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.”
“A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“I can lose myself in the Universe.”
“Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.”
“In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.”
“I wanted to win, even in practice.”
“You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.”

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