To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.
Jostein GaarderTag: faith-reason
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?
Jostein GaarderTag: jostein-gaarder sophie-s-world
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And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.
Jostein GaarderTag: science philosophy epistemology
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
Jostein GaarderTag: ethics
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
Jostein GaarderTag: epistemology
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
Jostein GaarderTag: existence
Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.
Jostein GaarderTag: crime-and-punishment
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
Jostein GaarderTag: human-knowledge
You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
Jostein GaarderEin Planet kreist aufgrund der Schwerkraft um die Sonne, und der Mond zieht das Meer an, und so entstehen Ebbe und Flut.'
Das wuste ich sehr wohl, aber dann sagte er:
Meinst du nicht, dass es auch eine Kraft geben muss, die uns aus dem Meer gezogen und uns Augen zum sehen und einem Kopf zum denken gegeben hat?'
Ich wusste nicht, was ich sagen sollte, und deshalb zuckte ich nur mit den schultern.
Ich wuesste gern, ob denen, die es nicht glauben, ein wichtiger sinn fehlt,' sagte Mika ganz zum schluss.
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