To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.
Criss JamiTag: wisdom truth certainty doubt pain philosophy god faith humility human understanding spirituality uncertainty theology pride comprehension knowing confusion apologetics pretentiousness not-knowing
It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert; a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position.
Criss JamiTag: philosophy goal understanding theology confusion apologetics mission evangelism evangelism-apologetics
Knowledge is the ability to obtain, process and use information, so that it benefits you as an asset and not a liability
KlobyTag: philosophy
No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can.
J.S.B. MorseTag: politics harm philosophy law government unalienable-rights coercion natural-law unalienable inalienable natural-rights
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
Anne CarsonTag: reading writing philosophy writing-craft literature novels desire eros anne-carson eros-the-bittersweet
Never thought reality could get better than one's dreams. Thanks to a women though, one would rather stay awake becaues one's dreams aint remotely close to being as good as his reality.
Morena BaloyiTag: love philosophy
We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.
David Foster WallaceTag: philosophy introspective
This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.
David Foster WallaceTag: philosophy introspective
It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.
David Foster WallaceTag: humor philosophy literature
It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.
Alain de BotonTag: philosophy religion atheism alain-de-boton
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