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- Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get…
- It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
- When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion…
- Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded…
- What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
- One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is…
- The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse…
- While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds…
- False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
- On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour