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What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
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Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.
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The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three was a genius!
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Follow your bliss.
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The greatest emotion is love. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest gift is your own life. The greatest pleasure is CHOCOLATE! The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is that there's always something new to learn. The greatest virtue is temperance. The greatest meditation is a peaceful mind. The greatest practice is to be kind. The greatest challenge is to let go. The greatest wisdom is to be in the NOW.
“Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.”
Regardless of Sunshine or Rain, Be Thankful for another GREAT day…and treat Life as the ULTIMATE Gift.... Because IT IS :)”
Time is the greatest thief in life.
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Things are going a pair ! Things are going opposite ! All kind of everything !
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There is nothing worse than apathy.
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The most fatality in human nature is greedy and selfish.
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Never doubt of your talents, all you wait for is just a right opportunity. Then, you can fly high up to where you belong.......
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All I want to live in real for once, not just to exist.
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There are having flowers in Spring, breezes in Summer, moon in Autumn, snows in Winter. If there is nothing worrying over you, it will be the best seasons at all times.
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Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
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Gravity's Rainbow
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Contribution #6539
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
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A poet’s work. To name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
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The Satanic Verses
Page via the poet character, Baal.
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Contribution #6465
...trust what you know to be true, not what you fear to be true...
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original material (c) 2012
Contribution #6463
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task…
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What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
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Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.
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He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' The stranger is a theologian.
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunk man is happier than a sober one.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
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To me, the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can't give way is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time, that I don't know anything like enough yet, that Ihaven't understood enough, that I can't know enough, that I'm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy …. – 1984
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1984
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Contribution #6345
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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Those who commit sin do not think sin sin. So there is no sin at all because all commit sin at least once in their lifetime.
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Believers have a strong faith in the fact that there is no God; otherwise they would not have indulged themselves in any sin.
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Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Storm
Tim Minchin
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Storm"
http://www.stormmovie.net/
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Contribution #6310
Love is like a typical type of grape. Those who do not get it say it sour. Even those who get it say it sour if they spit it.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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The truth is always beautiful because it's the truth.
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Cat Forsley
Cat Forsley
http://catforsley.me/
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Contribution #6265
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(6:27 PM 1/18/2011)
Contribution #6261
I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
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The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It’s between the essence of fundamentalism — paternalism, authority, and charity — and the messy imperatives of democracy, “the din of the vox populi” once derided by Abram Vereide. It’s the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters — the kinds who are always bickering.
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C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
Page Page 284,
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group,
, New York
, First Edition: September 2010,
http://Amazon
Contribution #6196
We are a people who never made singing or dancing an unrespected way of knowing. All of the five-fingered ways of knowing remained open to us.
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Pat McCabe - 12th Language of Spirit Conference
Contribution #6143
" A true born artist doesn't really need any drug (intoxicating substances, liquids...), to get high, to 'see'. If it happens that one does it, is to seem 'normal' as (for), the rest of the crowd. It is more acceptable (matrix rules), to get high on ‘something’, than to naturally doing it on what is perceived by most as 'nothing'..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~"Un véritable artist n'a vraiment pas besoin de la drogue (substances enivrantes, liquides ...), pour etre ivre/stone, pour 'voir'. S'il arrive de le faire, c'est seulement dans le but de paraître «normal » comme/pour le reste de la foule. Il est plus acceptable (dans les règles de la matrice), d'obtenir l'ivresse imbibe de «quelque chose», que de le faire naturellement sur ce qui est perçu par la plupart comme 'rien' ..." Alexandra Jicol © 2011
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We are never going to do anything here! You can't do it, waking yourself up! There is nothing to do! It's more an undoing. And not even that because you haven't done anything! It is an illusion of an undoing.
I'm a simple observer a traveler through life. My goal is to look, to hear, to explore, to learn, to express, to share, to appreciate all, if possible as a nonjudgmental and a tolerant soul.
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell.
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Contribution #6063
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Contribution #6054
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
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Take the path less beaten.
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Unknown
Contribution #5985
A common misconception is that sex is dirty. It is infact exactly the opposite; it is sacred, and not something to be profaned.
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My own words
Contribution #5974
The difference between the fool and the sage is the fool will say sought, but the sage will say seeking.
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My own words
Contribution #5948
Everything is a matter of opinion, but the truth of it is not.
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My own words
Contribution #5942
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
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"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."
Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.
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informal seminar notes
Contribution #5891
"It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
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"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief."
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"To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency."
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"For the total development of the human being, solitude as a means of cultivating sensitivity becomes a necessity. One has to know what it means to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the implications of solitude, of meditation, of death, can be known only by seeking them out. These implications cannot be taught, they must be learned."
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"Do you wish to know God? Learn first to know yourself."
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"The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated,
and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth will Find It. The Truth is
Hidden to the Blind, but he who has the Mental Eye Sees the Truth."
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"Comfort, the prevailing word for Progress, in its many different aspects and to varying degrees, forms a sufficient aim for the majority of civilized men of our era. Under these conditions of our times, man is only open to divine values in carefully measured doses, kept within limits so that they do not trouble his bourgeois conscience or threaten the material well-being he has acquired."
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"Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'."
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"Anything is one million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: Does this path have a heart?"
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In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to conform to a reality that doesn’t fit your current beliefs, and doesn’t feel 120% happy? Do you love truth enough to continue seeking even when it hurts, when it reveals aspects of yourself (or human society, or the universe) that are shocking, complex and disturbing, or humbling, glorious and amazing – or even, when truth is far beyond human mind itself? Just how much do we love truth? It’s a good question to ask ourselves, I think.
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"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know."
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"We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish...The questioning mind is absolutely necessary."
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"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance of things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived notions, opinion, and by prejudice."
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“When I heard the sound of the bell ringing, there was no bell, and there was no I- there was only the ringing.”
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“There is no self residing in body and mind, but the cooperation of the conformation produces what people call a person. Paradoxical though it may seem, there is a path to walk on, there is walking to be done, but there is no traveler. There are deeds being done, but no doer. There is blowing of air, but no wind-god behind it doing the blowing. The thought of existing self is an error, and all existences are as hollow as the plantain tree and as empty as twirling water bubbles.”
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“There are no verifiable truths but I Am.”
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“Through knowledge of the Self comes knowledge of the Universe.”
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“If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.”
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“Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable…To a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical. Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence…Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never becomes a toy to a wise spirit…Standing on the bare ground- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.”
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“Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact…The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.”
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“And what is grasping? There are four: grasping for sense pleasures, for speculative views, for rites and customs, and for delusions of selfhood.”
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“One instant of total awareness is one instant of perfect freedom and enlightenment.”
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“What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.”
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“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
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“And those whose hearts are fixed on Reality Itself deserve the title ‘Philosopher’.”
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“Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way.”
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“Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.”
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“Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.”
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“Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the ‘truth’ one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”
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“Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of ‘bad conscience’.”
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“All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience…Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual’s response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.”
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“Why couldn’t the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, ‘but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?’- couldn’t one answer simply: ‘Why? Doesn’t this “belongs” perhaps belong to the fiction, too?’”
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“Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?”
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“A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.”
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“…The Western ‘God-image’ is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation…The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on ‘him’. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”
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“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself…As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called ‘I’; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”
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“We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves…”
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“Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, ‘This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.’”
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“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction must be credible.”
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“The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.”
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“If you use your mind to study reality, you will understand neither reality nor the mind. If you study reality without using your mind, you will understand both.”
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“Things are not what they seem. Nor are they otherwise…Deeds exist, but no doer can be found.”
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“The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”
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“The present age…prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence…illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”
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“Just look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside-down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information, and religion destroys spirituality.”
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“In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.”
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“Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought. The mission of philosophy a priori is to establish the relation of manifested things to their invisible ultimate cause or nature.”
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“Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.”
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“Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outer reflection of your inner state of being.”
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“For nothing is secret that will not be made manifest; neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.”
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“A human being is part of a whole called by us ‘the universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
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“There are mysteries that men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.”
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“…there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them. Religious dogma and myth have been used very successfully either to suppress understanding or to twist the truth sufficiently to turn something positive into something negative.”
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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“Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take a different road, so long as we reach the same goal.”
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“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.”
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“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
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“Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is the beginning, and for physicists he is at the end of all considerations…to the former He is the foundation, to the later, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.”
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“The question is not ‘is there a God?’, but ‘is there anything else except God?’”
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“When you get there, there isn’t any ‘there’ there.”
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“To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.”
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“Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.”
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“Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.”
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“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand page menu, and no food.”
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
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“At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.”
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“And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.”
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“In each of us are places we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do we ever find them.”
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“The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.”
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“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”
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“The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.”
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"To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you."
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“The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation.”
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“The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.”
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“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one’s True Self.”
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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so arts and morals, is the discovery of reality.”
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“It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone’s beard.”
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“We must always be disturbed by the truth.”
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“Just study Buddhism. Don’t follow the sentiments of the world.”
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“Students of the Way must not study Buddhism for themselves. They must study Buddhism only for the sake of Buddhism. The key to this is to renounce both body and mind without holding anything back and to offer them to the great sea of Buddhism.”
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“Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.”
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“Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views.”
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“An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.”
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“Most great wisdom traditions agree that: 1. Spirit, by whatever name, exists; 2. Spirit, although existing ‘out there’, is found ‘in here’, or revealed within to the open heart or mind; 3. Most of us don’t realize this Spirit within, however, because we are living in a world of sin, separation or duality that is, we are living in a fallen, illusory, or fragmented state; 4. There is a way out of this fallen state (of sin or illusion or disharmony), there is a Path to our liberation; 5. If we follow this Path to its conclusion, the result is a Re-birth, or Enlightenment, a direct experience of Spirit within and without, a Supreme liberation, which; 6. Marks the end of sin and suffering, and; 7. manifests in social action of mercy and compassion on behalf of all sentient beings.”
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“Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.”
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“Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody or everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.”
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“Remarkably enough, the reason you are so disturbed about the facts of life that might make you fearful, sorrowful, angry is that whenever something arises that you might appropriately be angry, fearful, or sorrowful about, you do not feel it completely. You limit your feeling of even these reactions. And you certainly limit your feeling of the circumstances, or the condition, that is arising. You are always exhibiting the evidence of limited feeling, obstructed feeling. If feeling becomes limitless, if you do not contract, then feeling becomes Being Itself- no reaction, no contraction, Feeling without limit. That Feeling goes beyond fear, sorrow, anger, and conventional happiness and loving attitudes. What is It? Love-Bliss. It is the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Force of Being, without the slightest obstruction. It is Divine Enlightenment.”
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“The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True Freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True Freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are that One.”
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“The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.”
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“There is no Enlightenment, no evolutionary entrance into the truly Spiritual Condition of human existence, without ego-death, or transcendence of the mind. There must be the literal death of the separate and separative consciousness. In this moment, you are holding onto your sense of separate consciousness as if it were something tangible and material. You possess yourself through a great contraction of body and psyche. By virtue of this gesture, you have become rigid, mediocre, deluded, relatively loveless, self-possessed, and isolated. To be without an inner consciousness is, for you, unthinkable. To be incapable of feeling yourself as a separate consciousness is, for you, a terrifying prospect. Nevertheless, that is precisely the realization with which you must become completely comfortable.”
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“The higher dimension of religion has also always been practiced by a relatively few uncommon individuals. Indeed, it was largely the response to the more conventional or superficial aspects of such extraordinary personalities that produced the great cultic movements of exoteric religion among the masses. But such cultic movements are created by and designed for the instruction and social improvement of ordinary people, not men and women of the more highly evolved or awakened type. Therefore, alongside the development of exoteric religions there have always been secret societies and esoteric groups founded on practice of higher personal, moral, and biologically evolutionary disciplines.”
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“Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).”
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“To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.”
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“The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.”
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“Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.”
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“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love…Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”
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“The fear of anything is the fear of death, and the fear of death is the same as the fear of life...You cannot live fully until you are willing to die fully and you cannot die fully until you are willing to meet the fear of death fully. If you really meet the fear of death, you are at peace. You recognize what cannot die. To meet death is not suicide, nor is it the least bit dangerous. It only seems dangerous. What is dangerous, what is a living suicide, is to live your life in bondage to the belief that you are limited to a body (or a mind, or any-thing). As long as you resist the fact of death and hide from death through the tricks of the mind, you will suffer.”
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“The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare to state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.”
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“Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.”
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“For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison to the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. Since he is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the ends of things and their beginnings are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.”
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“In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children’s fairy tales as well as adult’s legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.”
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“It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.”
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“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them are not worth a brass farthing.”
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
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“’I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.”
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“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
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“God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.”
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“Before a person studies Zen mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters not waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.”
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“The nature of God is that of a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
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“Look within, thou art Buddha.”
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“The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore, if you want to discover nature’s nakedness, you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there your soul must stay.”
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
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No source entered for Contribution #4997
“The map is not the territory.”
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“The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
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“If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don’t seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.”
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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
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No source entered for Contribution #4983
“In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.”
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“What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.”
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“Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.”
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“An elementary particle is not an independently existing, un-analyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reach outward to other things.”
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“If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say ‘no’; if we ask whether the electron’s position changes with time, we must say ‘no’; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say ‘no’; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say ‘no’.”
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“It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around.”
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No source entered for Contribution #4940
“Search back into your own vision- think back to the mind that thinks. Who is it?”
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Here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
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to William Roscoe, 27 December 1820
Contribution #4922
"I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee."
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Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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Contribution #4839
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Doubt requires more courage
than conviction does,
because conviction is a resting place
and doubt is infinite;
it is a passionate exercise.
Weve got to learn to live
with a full measure of uncertainty.
There is no last word.
That is the silence under
the chatter of our time.
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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
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It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.
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Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates!
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Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
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No source entered for Contribution #4799
I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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No source entered for Contribution #4797
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.
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No source entered for Contribution #4796
Never assume that a statement is wrong because it is badly argued.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting wisdom but to set a limit on everlasting error.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true."
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Youtube C0nc0rdance's Channel
Richard Feynman
"
Richard Feynman's "The Relation of Science and Religion" "
http://www.youtube.com/user/C0nc0rdance
Viewed on January 29, 2011
Contribution #4761
...take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
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No source entered for Contribution #4736
Let us not seek the Republican answer nor the Democratic answer but the right answer
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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No source entered for Contribution #4625
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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"Whatever separates man from man is not of God, but of ego."
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Contribution #4609
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
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Only a blessed person who has tasted the Nectar of self Realisation and has also tasted the Bliss of Martyrdom, is in a position to authenticate that Bliss of Martyrdom is far superior to the Bliss of Self -Realisation.
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Eternal Glory of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj
Brig. Partap Singh Ji Jaspal (Retd.)
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Quotes by Baba Narinder Singh Ji"
http://www.babanandsinghsahib.org/quotes/martyrdom/
Viewed on November 24, 2010
Contribution #4587
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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No source entered for Contribution #4569
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
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No source entered for Contribution #4568
"A wise man asks himself the reason for his mistakes, while a fool will ask others."
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Contribution #4564
Science has long been in the values business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best effort to value priinciples of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Page pp. 143-144
Published by Free Press
, New York
, 2010
http://
Contribution #4541
Seeking God without honestly seeking truth makes no sense. How can you find something you're not looking for?
Naturalism finds truth. Supernaturalism cannot. One chemistry, one biology, one math, yet more theologies exist today than ever before.
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Truth springs from an argument among friends.
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
“In order for one to fully appreciate the subtle nuances of this world, one must first allow oneself to notice they’re there.”
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"Intent and result are two allies whom rarely meet."
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Age of fire
by E.E.Knight
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Contribution #4432
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best--and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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No source entered for Contribution #4415
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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No source entered for Contribution #4400
For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.
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No source entered for Contribution #4392
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
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Evolving Thoughts
John S. Wilkins, biologist and philosopher
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Religion and Truth Revisited"
http://evolvingthoughts.net/2009/07/page/3/
Viewed on September 14, 2010
Contribution #4386
"Faith" is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
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No source entered for Contribution #4311
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
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The path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
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No source entered for Contribution #4286
Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you finally live
With veracity
And love.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Contribution #4260
"The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being." -Rumi
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Contribution #4254
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
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There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
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No source entered for Contribution #4233
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
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No source entered for Contribution #4227
Redemption is invented by the sinner.
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The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows My Name - USA)
Published in 2007
http://
Contribution #4068
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.
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The True Believer
Page 79
http://
Contribution #3967
What Stresemann said of the Germans is true of the frustrated in general: '[They] pray not only for [their] daily bread, but also for [their] daily illusion'. The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
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All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.
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The True Believer
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Contribution #3965
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
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There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
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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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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.
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Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
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If common sense were a reliable guide, we wouldn't need science.
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren’t always two sides. Sometimes there’s only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.
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The Gotham Skeptic
Barry Leiba
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"Faulty Logic: False Dichotomy""
http://www.nycskeptics.org/blog/?p=1073
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Contribution #3767
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Faith is not a way of knowing. It is a way of yearning, of aspiring, and so, a way of creating.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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If you look at every human being as a Divine mirror, you will know yourself and understand life.
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I like not to know for as long as possible because then it tells me the truth instead of me imposing the truth.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -
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Ron Sims Daily Wisdom
Henry Miller
Viewed on December 7, 2009
Contribution #3661
Don't expect anything original from an echo.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Contribution #3648
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
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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
Whenever we teach our children that groundless faith is a virtue, we pave the way for groundless violence.
Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.
This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly attached to it.
The truth is in the mystery.
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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Belief is what you do when there is no data.
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Contribution #3561
Progess is confusion at a higher level
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
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Preserving the right to uncensored expression is important not only because it is indispensable for an objective examination of truth claims—it is no accident that dictatorships uniformly suppress speech—but also because it has intrinsic value. Human dignity requires the freedom to express oneself as an individual.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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A conclusion is simply where you stopped thinking.
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Contribution #3438
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.
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"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting."- Buddha
The more we learn, the more we question; institutions and beliefs, once immutable, become like a river, fluid, moving, changing.
That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.
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From the discourses of Rev. Padurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3393
The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.
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From the discourses of Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3390
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
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The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Why does the wind not cease? Why does the mind not rest? Why do the waters, seeking truth, never ever cease?
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Atharva Veda
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Contribution #3340
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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The one who first states a case seems right, until the other comes and cross-examines.
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Bible
Proverbs
18:17
Published by New Revised Standard Version
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Contribution #3238
Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
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Page 297
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Contribution #3233
I try to believe what I have to believe, not what I want to believe.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.
3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."
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Gnostic Gospels
Gospel of Thomas
Saying 3
Version or Translation Thomas O. Lambdin (Coptic version)
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Contribution #3206
Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. ~Pride and Prejudice~
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Pride and Prejudice
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Contribution #3200
If science is to carry on a meaningful dialogue with religion, it must work to establish a level playing field where both sides honestly address what we can and cannot know about ourselves and the world around us. We need to back away from perpetuating the all-knowing rational mind myth that makes real discussion impossible. At the same time, we need to acknowledge that the evidence for a visceral need for a sense of faith, purpose and meaning is as powerful as the evidence for evolution.
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On Being Certain
Page 196
Published by St. Martin's Press
, New York
, 2008
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Contribution #3182
Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.
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On Being Certain
Page 176
Published by St. Martin's
, New York
, 2008
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Contribution #3181
We have an innate tendency to characterize the unexpected and unlikely according to our worldview.
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On Being Certain
Page 186
Published by St. Martin's Press
, New York
, 2008
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Contribution #3179
In science, 'fact' can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Page 161.
Published by Penguin
, London
, 1991
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Contribution #3177
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
We use patterns of behavior to guide us around life's potholes and minefields. We choose neighborhoods, friends, jobs and activities based on our own pattern of experience. Science tries to interpret the past, understand the present, and predict future events from a more rigorously catalogued and analyzed collection of patterns.
Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
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It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.
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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.
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The Witching Hour
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Contribution #3081
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
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Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.
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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
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Timescape
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Contribution #3056
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contribution #3050
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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"Letter to JD Hooker 1848," The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
by Fredrick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith, eds.
Page Volume 4, Page 140
Published by Cambridge University press
, Cambridge
, 1985-1991
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Contribution #3042
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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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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Science is organized common sense--where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
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It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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One evening a Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves inside of us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?" The Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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The New York Times
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Contribution #2902
A good gardener starts as a good weeder.
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Contribution #2880
The less you know, the more you believe.
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
by trans. J.A. Smith, ed. Richard McKeon
Page On the Soul, p. 587
Published by Random House
, New York
, 1941
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Contribution #2848
The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while on the other hand we do not collectively fail, but every one says something true about the nature of things, and while individually we contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
by trans J.A. Smith, ed. Richard McKeon
Page Metaphysics, p. 712
Published by Random House
, New York
, 1941
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Contribution #2847
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
Every great idea starts as a movement, becomes a business and turns into a scam.
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I wish I could remember wher I heard this.
Contribution #2840
To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, it is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.
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Learned Optimism
Page 42
Published by Pocket Books
, New York
, 1990, 1998
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Contribution #2812
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.
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Ethics for the New Millenium
Page 36
Published by Riverhead Books
, New York
, 1999
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Contribution #2787
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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mailer from "The Skeptical Inquirer"
Contribution #2734
Science lets questions determine the answers; Ideology lets answers determine the questions.
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Science means following the questions where they lead, even if you don’t like what the results are telling you.
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In science, every set of conclusions is just a status report. They say, “this is how far we’ve gotten in terms of figuring out what’s real.”
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The scientific method is simply what we know about how not to fool ourselves.
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Let us use science to discover truth. That done, let us use science and the humanities to guide our use of newly discovered truths. But let us recognize that the road to truth is forked, dimly lit, strewn with obstacles. We need, therefore, to recognize and to applaud the role of faith and the spiritual as founts of strength and of perseverance.
Make your books your companions.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2624
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world.
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly (if belatedly) that conservatives' "disdain for liberal intellectuals" had slipped into "disdain for the educated class as a whole," and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole. There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.
I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.
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The Audacity of Hope
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Contribution #2541
[The] issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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MSNBC interview, Sep 25, 2006
Contribution #2530
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
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Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
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Readers no less than writers are the gatekeepers of truth.
Sages forever strive to be at one with truth. Their ideal – which they pursue earnestly but never achieve to perfection – is to grow into supreme human beings whose knowledge and behavior coincide with the nature of things and their earthly mission: with life and love.
… truth, or the conformity of thought to reality, is the sine qua non of vital efficacy. Health, pleasure, successful careers, and harmonious relationships require that we know the needs and capabilities of our nature, and the workings of the world. The absence of this knowledge leads to accidents, illness, suffering, failure, and death. Therefore, the first object of our desires should be truth, or the knowledge of ourselves and the world around us.
Don't believe everything you think.
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A man who sees the world the same at fifty as he did at thirty, has wasted twenty years of his life.
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All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
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The True Believer
by Eric Hoffer
Page xiii
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
, New York
, 1951
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Contribution #2068
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.
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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and quality in things than it really finds.
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back.
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To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion. Put hunches, gut feelings, and intuitions into the suggestion box. Let empiric methods shake out the good from bad suggestions.
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On Being Certain
Page 167
Published by St. Martin's Press
, New York
, 2008
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Contribution #1890
Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward--to contemplate the origin of their thoughts. The failures of science do not begin with flawed evidence or fumbled statistics; they begin with personal self-deception and an unjustified sense of knowing.
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On Being Certain
Page 167
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, 2008
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Contribution #1889
We want to be known for having original ideas, inspired hunches, and gut feelings that make a difference. Indeed, a "well-honed sixth sense"' is considered a measure of the good clinician. But being a good doctor also requires sticking with the best medical evidence, even if it contradicts your personal experience. We need to distinguish between gut feeling and testable knowledge, between hunches and empirically tested evidence.
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On Being Certain
Page 161
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, 2008
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Contribution #1888
As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there afre known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns--the ones we don't know we don't know.
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Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations--always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder.
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Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem.
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Contribution #1735
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
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In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives about us, the value for good and evil, of the aims men have pursued and the means they have adopted. It is good, from time to time, to view the present as already past, and to examine what elements it contains that will add to the world's store of permanent possessions, that will live and give life when we and all our generation have perished.
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
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The Independent Review?
"On History"
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Contribution #1729
Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.
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...truth is much more than a means to expose the malevolent. It is the great creative force of civilization. For truth is knowledge; and a civilized man is one who, in Hobbes' words, has a "perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge." Hobbes also writes: "Joy, arising from imagination of a man's own power and ability, is that exaltation of mind called glorying." And so it is; for the pursuit of truth is our civilization's glory, and the joy we obtain from it is the nearest we shall approach to happiness, at least on this side of the grave. If we are steadfast in this aim, we need not fear the enemies of society.
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.
Hear all sides and you will be enlightened. Hear one side and you will be in the dark.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 153
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
, New York
, 2003
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Contribution #1599
Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Rely on the teacher's message, not the personality
Rely on the meaning, not just the words
Rely on the real meaning, not the provisional one
Rely on your wisdom mind, not your ordinary, judgemental mind
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1470
Peace comes from within
Do not seek it without
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Heart of a Buddha
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, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1463
Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings,
man will not find peace
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Heart of a Buddha
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Contribution #1453
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
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All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,--real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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The gift of Truth
overcomes all gifts.
The joy of Truth
overcomes all pleasures.
The taste of Truth
overcomes all sweetness.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
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Contribution #1250
Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with Truth.
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
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By exhaustively examining one's own mind,
one may understand his nature.
One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance: We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Truth is one; sages call it by various names.
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Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. By truthfulness the path of felicity is opened up, the path which is taken by the sages, freed from cravings, and which leads them to truth's eternal abode.
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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
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Learn from yesterday, live for
today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Believe
those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
Justice is truth in
action.
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.
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Whose Freedom?
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Contribution #773
From the cowardice that dare not face new truth,
From the laziness that is contented with half truth,
From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, deliver us.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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Kahlil Gibran
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Contribution #585
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Alan W. Watts
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Contribution #581
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
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Confucius
Viewed on April 11, 2008
Contribution #580
If God is Love and Truth, then in truth and love we shall find Him. Whether we are His creation or He is ours does not change the nature of the quest.
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The Dark Side
by Valerie Tarico
Page 257
Published in 2006
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Contribution #541
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
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Count Leo Tolstoy
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Contribution #449
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?"
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William James
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Contribution #446
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
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John
8:32
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Contribution #349
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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Tryon Edwards
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Contribution #173
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
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Doug Gwyn
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Contribution #21
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding
by John Locke
Page Dedicatory Epistle, Book IV, Ch. 7, Sec. 11
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Contribution #13
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Prejudices, 3rd Series
by Henry Louis Mencken
Page Chapter 3
Published in 1922
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Contribution #12
Nonviolence and truth (Satya) are inseparable and presuppose one another.... There is no god higher than truth.
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True Patriotism: Some Sayings of Mahatma Gandhi
Published in 1939
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Contribution #11
What does truth-seeking look like in a person?
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