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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to…
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born…
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
— Alain de Botton
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot…
— Michael Shermer
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
— George Bernard Shaw
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As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,…
— Ayn Rand
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Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
— Eugene Mirman
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first…
— Karl Marx
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Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing…
— Roger Penrose
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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,…
— Paul Ricoeur
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The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and…
— Eric Voegelin
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Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring…
— Kenny Smith
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To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there!…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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