"God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man……" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment."

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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