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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
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Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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Reason and faith are banks of the same river.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Days Of Healing Days OF Joy
by Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty
Page May 4
Published by Hazelden Meditations
, Center City MN
, 1987
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Contribution #3621
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
A conclusion is simply where you stopped thinking.
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Contribution #3438
Let me seek always for understanding, never tiring of the quest for rational underpinnings in the workings of the universe; and all that I cannot understand, may I regard with divine wonder, even as I guard the hope that this, too, may someday be tamed by reason.
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Daily Inspiration
Josh Mitteldorf
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Belief and Action; March 29, 2009"
http://daily-inspiration.org
Viewed on June 11, 2009
Contribution #3327
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
"Nothing difficult is ever easy"
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Contribution #3103
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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Let us contemplate the one simple nature of that peaceful unity which joins all things to itself and to each other, preserving them in their distinctiveness and yet linking them together in a universal and unconfused alliance.
--Many Voices / One Truth / Spirit of the World
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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Contribution #2734
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
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Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places---the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.
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The Voice of the Master
by Trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 55
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1954
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Contribution #2136
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism is itself a religion without God—not all religions, of course, are theistic. Our ethical secular ideal has it's own disciplines of mind and heart and gives people the means of finding faith in the ultimate meaning of human life that were once provided by the more conventional religions.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world.
Humanists affirm that individual and social problems can only be resolved by means of human reason, intelligent effort, critical thinking joined with compassion, and a spirit of empathy for all living beings.
The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.
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St. Augustine
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #453
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #452
What does rationality look like in a person?
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