Schimbarea progresiva neintrerupta la care este supus intelesul cuvintelor, lipsa unui limbaj universal, care face ca traducerea sa fie necesara, ero… - Thomas Paine
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Schimbarea progresiva neintrerupta la care este supus intelesul cuvintelor, lipsa unui limbaj universal, care face ca traducerea sa fie necesara, erorile carora traducrile le sunt supuse, greselile copistilor si tipografilor, alaturi de posibilitatea denaturarii voite sunt in ele insele dovezi ca limbajul omenesc, fie ca este vorbit sau tiparit, nu poate fi vehiculul Cuvantului lui Dumnezeu. [...] Cuvantul lui Dumnezeu este creatia, si prin cuvantul acesta, pe care niciun om nu il poate fabrica sau denatura – Dumnezeu ii vorbeste in mod universal omului.
Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736] – 8 June 1809) was a British-American political writer, theorist, and activist who had a great influence on the thoughts and ideas which led to the American Revolution and the United States Declaration of Independence. He wrote three of the most influential and controversial works of the 18th Century: Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights.
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It is a want of feeling to talk of priests and bells while so many infants are perishing in the hospitals, and aged and infirm poor in the streets, from the want of necessaries.
It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. Take away that reason, and he would be incapable of understanding anything; and, in this case, it would be just as consistent to read even the book called the Bible to a horse as to a man. How, then, is it that those people pretend to reject reason?
That which we obtain too easily we esteem too lightly.
