In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is, is not. But take note that he proves all these unheard-of paradoxes without any fallacious or sophistical reasoning.
ATTRIBUTION:
Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655), French author, playwright. A “lunarian,” in The Other World: States and Empires of the Moon, ch. 8 (1656).
Describing a work of philosophy “composed by one of the best brains under the sun.”
