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53b95e2 A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. freedom philosophy inspirational lateral-thinking anarchy rationalism Gilles Deleuze
68ca579 "Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing." man god h2g2 hitchhiker-s-guide rationalism logic Douglas Adams
bb21527 Love is the only rational act. rationalism Mitch Albom
2e954ba The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. wisdom rationalism rationalists reddit white-male-privilege wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness pitfalls-of-bad-thinking empiricism white-privilege atheism nerds nerd Nassim Nicholas Taleb
18c02b9 The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive. rationalism individualism tradition Terry Eagleton
0b46296 "The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogmas. It may be thought 'dogmatic,' for instance, in some circles accounted progressive, to assume the perfection or improvement of man in another world. But it is not thought "dogmatic" to assume the perfection or improvement of man in this world; though that idea of progress is quite as unproved as the idea of immortality, and from a rationalistic point of view quite as improbable. Progress happens to be one of our dogmas, and a dogma means a thing which is not thought dogmatic." progress truth rationalism doctrine dogma G.K. Chesterton
8c6d8dd O Mproier prospathese na apotinaxei to thanato ap' to mualo tou. Mourmourise to agapemeno tou xorki, te phrase tou Loukretiou: <> All' auto den boethese. Tinaxe to kephali tou, prospathontas na dioxei autes tis makabries skepseis. Apo pou tou eikhan erthei; Ap' ten koubenta gia to thanato pou ekane me ton Nitse; Okhi, mallon den tou tis ebale o Nitse sto mualo, aplos tis apeleutherose. Panta etan ekei. Oles tis eikhe xanaskephtei. Se poia periokhe tou mualou tou omos katoikousan, otan den tis skephtotan; O Phrount eikhe dikio: prepei na uparkhei mia dexamene suntheton skepseon ston egkephalo, pera ap' te suneidese, alla se etoimoteta, etoimes opoiadepote stigme na klethoun na parelasoun ste skene tes suneidetotetas. Kai s' aute te me suneidete dexamene, den tha uparkhoun mono skepseis, alla kai sunaisthemata! Prin liges meres, mes' ap' to amaxi tou, o Mproier koitaxe to diplano amaxi. Ta duo tou aloga tripodizan trabontas piso tous ten karotsa, pou mesa tes kathontan duo epibates, ena skuthropo elikiomeno zeugari. Omos den uperkhe amaxas. Ena amaxi phantasma! O tromos ton tuphlose, ki eikhe mia stigmiaia ephidrose: ta roukha tou mesa se deuterolepta eginan mouskema. Ki epeita phaneke o odegos tou amaxiou: eikhe aplos skupsei gia na desei ten mpota tou. Sten arkhe o Mproier eikhe gelasei me ten anoete antidrase tou. Alla oso perissotero te skephtotan, toso suneidetopoiouse oti, oso orthologistes ki eleutheros dianoetes ki an etan, sto mualo tou omos krubontan pholies uperphusikou tromou. Ki okhi polu bathia: <>, briskontan deuterolepta makria ap' ten epiphaneia. A, na uperkhe mia labida na xerizosei autes tis pholies, san tis amugdales! metaphysics rationalism Irvin D. Yalom
ca3977e For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism. rebellion faith reason dogmatism rationalism revolt liberalism Alister E. McGrath
91ff8bc It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite. fear life inconfidence rationalism weakness emotions decisions safety George Eliot
de76b9e More personally, my intellect is a stumbling block to much that makes life worth living: laughter, love; a wiling acceptance of being created. The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. love rationalism intellectualism intellect Madeleine L'Engle
a27b3c3 Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason. faith reason rationalism transcendence Alister E. McGrath
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