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.
Stichwörter: man god logic creation h2g2 hitchhiker-s-guide rationalism
Twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: intellect rationalism
Love is the only rational act.
Mitch AlbomStichwörter: love rationalism
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel KantStichwörter: knowledge reason understanding rationalism senses empiricism
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel ButlerStichwörter: logic rationalism sword
The clothes have no emperor.
Stewart Elliott GuthrieStichwörter: religion rationalism
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.
Stephen KingStichwörter: rationalism
The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the unbelieving postmodernist. our faith is a dogma that makes you dance.
Reggie M. KiddStichwörter: postmodernism rationalism romaticism
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
Michael OakeshottStichwörter: experience rationalism
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
Terry EagletonStichwörter: progress rationalism scientism
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