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Ideas for 'Papancasudani', 'The Folly of Trying to Define Truth' and 'On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum')'

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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

2634	It seems clear to me that we have an innate idea of the divine [Cicero]
	Full Idea: Let us take it as agreed that we have a preconception or "an innate idea" (as I have called it) or a prior knowledge of the divine.
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], I.44)

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique

2636	Many primitive people know nothing of the gods [Cicero]
	Full Idea: There must be many wild and primitive peoples who have no idea of the gods at all.
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], I.62)

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

2650	If a person cannot feel the power of God when looking at the stars, they are probably incapable of feeling [Cicero]
	Full Idea: If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], II.55)

2655	If the barbarians of Britain saw a complex machine, they would be baffled, but would know it was designed [Cicero]
	Full Idea: If someone were to take the celestial globe of Posidonius and show it to the people of Britain, would a single one of those barbarians fail to see that it was the product of a conscious intelligence?
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], II.88)

2656	Chance is no more likely to create the world than spilling lots of letters is likely to create a famous poem [Cicero]
	Full Idea: If someone thinks chance made the world, he should also think that if an infinite number of the letters of the alphabet were shaken together and poured out on the ground it would be possible for them to spell out the whole 'Annals' of Ennius.
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], II.93)

2647	It is obvious from order that someone is in charge, as when we visit a gymnasium [Cicero]
	Full Idea: If one comes into a gymnasium and sees everything properly arranged and carried on in order, one does not imagine these arrangements to be accidental, but infers that there is someone in command whose orders are obeyed.
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], II.15)

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

2657	If everything with regular movement and order is divine, then recurrent illnesses must be divine [Cicero]
	Full Idea: Are we to find a divinity in every regular movement and in everything which happens in a constant order? If so, we shall have to say that tertian and quartan agues are divine because their course and recurrence is absolutely uniform.
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') [c.44 BCE], III.24)