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Full Idea
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
Gist of Idea
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has
Source
Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1800)
Book Ref
Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.60
A Reaction
Presumably sceptics about the existence of objective truth must also be sceptical about the possibility of such a God. I think Joubert is close to the nature of truth here. It is a remote and barely imaginable ideal.