Mehmet Murat IldanOur spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!
About This Quote
To ventriloquize is to make a sound seem to come from a place other than its true source. In this quote, Thoreau is referring to the voices of God and Man being similar in nature, and representative of the same power. God's voice is the voice of Man, not of God.
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