brave-speaking

Updated: April 30, 2025

The brave-speaking Plato pronounceth that God formed the world after his own image; but this smells rank of the old dotages, old comic writers would say; for how did God, casting his eye upon himself, frame this universe? Or how can God be spherical, and be inferior to man?

Plutarch - Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies