Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom certainty doubt morality peace war patience faith security logic calm uncertainty conflict fighting controversy conviction battles insecurity disputes
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: lies logic disortion systemization
Heisenberg and Bohr and Einstein strike me as being like gifted retriever dogs. Off they go, not just for an afternoon, but for ten years; they come back exhausted and triumphant and drop at your feet... a vole. It's a remarkable thing in its way, a vole—intricate, beautiful really, marvellous. But does it... Does it help? Does it move the matter on?
When you ask a question that you'd actually like to know the answer to—what was there before the Big Bang, for instance, or what lies beyond the expanding universe, why does life have this inbuilt absurdity, this non sequitur of death—they say that your question can't be answered, because the terms in which you've put it are logically unsound. What you must do, you see, is ask vole questions. Vole is—as we have agreed—the answer; so it follows that your questions must therefore all be vole-related.
Tags: science questions meaning logic voles
There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
Robert NozickTags: liberalism logic political-science
Where logic reaches, religion leaves.
M.F. Moonzajersometimes the most logical thought that come out from our head is far from "logic" in reality.
Dian Agung YogantaraTags: humanity logic logical-thinking
Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.
Nenia CampbellTags: thinking dreams fantasy magic logic
Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God.... On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded himself as an atheist only in his inability to believe what the churches would have him believe. They were content to show that the Christian concept of the supernatural was meaningless, that the arguments in its favor were illogical, and that the mysteries of the universe, insofar as they were explicable, could be accounted for in material terms.
Edward RoyleTags: history belief meaning logic atheist naturalism mystery freethinker materialism definition supernatural charles-southwell freethinkers george-holyoake george-jacob-holyoake holyoake southwell
God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.
S.T. JoshiTags: existence burden-of-proof logic argument causation
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
Raheel FarooqTags: wisdom intelligence philosophy paradoxes logic
« first previous
Page 24 of 27.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.