Listen with an open heart
William O'BrienTags: truth knowledge humanity philosophy magic spirituality mystical healing-insights
Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.
PindarTags: existence philosophy human-nature
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
David J. ChalmersTags: science life consciousness natural philosophy atheism humanism atheist facts neuroscience religious-views humanistic-spirituality
[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]
One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.' In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside in north-west New Jersey, and breathed in the stunning odour of the orchids. Around the same time he discovered a fascinating book at the home of his leftist parents, defending Leon Trotsky against Stalin. This was the origin of the vision that the young Rorty took with him to college: philosophy is there to reconcile the celestial beauty of orchids with Trotsky's dream of justice on earth. Nothing is sacred to Rorty the ironist. Asked at the end of his life about the 'holy', the strict atheist answered with words reminiscent of the young Hegel: 'My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.
Tags: inspirational love justice philosophy death atheism hope autobiography atheist law earth holy sacred hegel obituary joseph-stalin stalin orchids leon-trotsky descendants richard-rorty global-civilization ironist richard-rorty-obituary strict-atheist trotsky
Nothing exceeds like excess.
RavenTags: philosophy
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.
Alasdair MacIntyreTags: morality philosophy literature fantasy fiction
If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?
Etienne VermeerschTags: existence philosophy atheism universe atheist naturalism materialism infinite first-cause antitheism atheist-argument origin-of-the-universe origin-of-universe argument-against-theism first-cause-argument-debunked special-pleading special-pleading-fallacy
Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
Robert G. IngersollTags: injustice justice philosophy atheism heaven contradiction impossibility ingersoll problem-of-evil argument-from-problem-of-evil atheism-arguments
When a mere girl, my mother offered me a dollar if I would read the Bible through; . . . . despairing of reconciling many of its absurd statements with even my childish philosophy, . . . I became a sceptic, doubter, and unbeliever, long ere the 'Good Book' was ended.
Elmina Drake SlenkerTags: philosophy youth atheism atheist girl absurdity young bible-study bible-absurdities doubter sceptic unbeliever
The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
Thomas HobbesTags: science philosophy nature universe naturalism physics materialism
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