The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe or rule reminding us to 'observe the mean', to be moderate in all things and to avoid excess and deciciency. (If the doctrine urges us not to drink too much wine, it equally urges us not to drink too little -- but that is something which the moralizers usually find it prudent to ignore.)
Jonathan BarnesTags: philosophy-religion
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
StendhalTags: life philosophy-religion
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.
Sidney HookTags: atheism irreligion philosophy-religion
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
Kristina McMorrisTags: inspirational philosophy war tragedy world-war-ii prayers philosophy-religion
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
Kristina McMorrisTags: inspirational god war faith world-war-ii philosophy-religion japanese-fiction
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
Terry PratchettTags: life money death greed philosophy-religion terry-pratchett going-postal
We are ultimately unknowable to ourselves and others. Our past and future are mostly unknowable. God is unknowable. For the present the universe - its origins and its destiny - is unknowable, as is whether there are many universes. Infinity is unknowable. These are some of the fundamental reasons why I call myself an agnostic.
Michael KrasnyTags: agnostic philosophy-religion
We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs. ...Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it.
Bertrand RussellTags: philosophy-religion
Reality is what exists whether we believe in it or not.
J.A.V. SimsonTags: philosophy-religion
You really wanna take care of North Korea? I’ll tell you what to do: grab a couple of devout Christians and dress em’ up as Kim Jong-un and drop their asses into North Korea armed with Bibles and methamphetamines. They’ll either convert everybody or call em’ sinners and murder every last one of them. Problem solved.
Aaron B. PowellTags: philosophy-religion north-korea
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