The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason.
I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.
Tags: love reason compassion empathy humility understanding selfishness reasoning conflict subjective narcissism erich-fromm objective objectivity the-art-of-loving
Благоразумието е бич за своя носител.
Blaga DimitrovaAbsolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.
Dejan StojanovicTags: reason poetry philosophy literature poets forgetting quotes game absolute motion poetry-quotes player returning literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
[...] the less you know, the less you will be aware of your ignorance. The familiar metaphor is that the wider the circle of our knowledge, the greater its contact with the unknown, and the more oppressive our feeling of cognitive inadequacy. By contrast, a small mind finds a small world to match it, and the smaller the mind the more it feels it has the world sussed.
Raymond TallisTags: knowledge reason philosophy
When magic through nerves and reason passes,
Imagination, force, and passion will thunder.
The portrait of the world is changed.
Tags: wisdom imagination passion reason poetry world literature magic force changed quotes thoughts nerves portrait thunder poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic circling
There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it
The very fact of having fixed conclusions to strive for in orthodox belief does not render the Christian philosopher dogmatic but rather intellectually fruitful, willing to take and follow reason further than the putatively undogmatic unbelieving philosopher
Gregory B. SadlerTags: reason philosophy belief intellect orthodoxy dogmatism philosophy-of-religion christian-philosophy
Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In this moment, it is the very rationality of other humans, reason in the broad sense, understood as roughly equal to oneself in both capacity and structure, that poses such a threat
Gregory B. SadlerTags: politics reason human-nature danger rationality conflict
As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.
Sam HarrisTags: reason logic evolution rationale analysis
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
Criss JamiTags: reason purpose war enemies strategy understanding argument fallacy battle debate exaggeration motives unbiased fallacies biased straw-man straw-man-fallacy strawman strawman-fallacy tactic
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