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Carl Sagan: "Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us -- then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame flutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir." 2 |
Privilege:
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Anon: "When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." |
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Anon: "Equality can feel like oppression. But it’s not. What you’re feeling is just the discomfort of losing a little bit of your privilege." |
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Anon: "Privilege is when you think something is not a problem because it's not a problem to you personally" |
Purpose:
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Reality:
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626 CE): "The general root of
superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they
miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
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Mike Howerton: "Unless you spend the time it takes to know
yourself, you will continue to project your own issues on the people that
surround you, or sometimes even the places in which you find yourself."
("Miles to cross", Page 70)
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Tsao Hsueh-chin: "When the unreal is taken for the real, the real becomes
unreal."
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Voltaire: "Those who believe absurdities end up committing
atrocities"
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One of this website's mottos: "When some people deviate from reality, others are often hurt." |
Reason:
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Galileo Galilei: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." |
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Khalil Gibran: "For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion,
unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction".
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Goya: "Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible
monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin
of marvels."
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George Bernard Shaw: "There is only one religion, although there are a
hundred versions of it."
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Jonathan Swift: "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was
never reasoned into."
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Alfred North Whitehead: "We think in generalities, but we live in details." |
Religion:
For essays on religion: See quotes by authors with names starting A to P and quotes by authors Q to Z
References used:
- "Converting a child: Jewish boy caught by Southern Baptists' evangelizing," ABC News, 2000-MAY-12, at: http://abcnews.go.com/
- Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark."
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Last updated: 2015-DEC-09
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