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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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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…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter…
— John Polkinghorne
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Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used…
— Mario Puzo
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time.…
— Ruby Dee
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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
— Lin Yutang
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The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to…
— Hugo Black
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The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors…
— Carl Jung
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Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as…
— Lois P Frankel
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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles…
— Robert Walpole
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