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There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity. ↗
No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world...So I'll be happy to receive my neat, printed sheet of 'Approved Matches.' It means I'll end up with somebody. It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would). ↗
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition. ↗
It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of "Science is based on faith too, so there!" Typically this is said by people who claim that faith is a good thing. Then why do they say "Science is based on faith too!" in that angry-triumphal tone, rather than as a compliment? And a rather dangerous compliment to give, one would think, from their perspective. If science is based on 'faith', then science is of the same kind as religion—directly comparable. If science is a religion, it is the religion that heals the sick and reveals the secrets of the stars. It would make sense to say, "The priests of science can blatantly, publicly, verifiably walk on the Moon as a faith-based miracle, and your priests' faith can't do the same." Are you sure you wish to go there, oh faithist? Perhaps, on further reflection, you would prefer to retract this whole business of "Science is a religion too! ↗
من أفضل ما يلخص الفرق بين الدين والفلسفة عند قدماء اليونان مقولة للفارابي (إن اسم الفلسفة خاص عندهم بالعلم الذي تتعقل فيه حقائق الأشياء بذاتها، لا بمثلها، ويتوسل فيه إلى اثباتها بالبراهين اليقينية لا بمجرد الإقناع. أما الملل والأديان فطريقها في التفهيم إقناعي، وتمثيلي) . ورد هذا المعنى عند الفارابي بلغته الخاصة، وهو يرى أن كل تعليم يلتئم بشيئين: التفهيم بالشيء وإقامة معناه في النفس، وإقاع التصديق بما فهم. (وتفهيم الشيء على ضربين : أحدهما أن تعقل ذاته، والثاني بأن يتخيل بمثاله الذي يحاكيه. وإيقاع التصديق يكون بأحد الطريقين: إما بطريق البرهان اليقيني، وإما بطريق الإقناع. ومتى حصل علم الموجودات أو تعلّمت، فإن عُقِلت معانيها أنفسها وأوقعَ التصديق بها عن البراهين اليقينية، كان العلم المشتمل على تلك المعلومات فلسفة، ومتى علمت بأن تخيلت بمثالاتها التي تحاكيها، وحصل التصديقي بما خيل منها عن طريق الطرق الإقناعية، كان المشتمل على تلك المعلومات تسمية القدماء ملة). هذا يعني أن الفرق الأساسي بين الدين والفلسفة بحسب الفارابي، هو في الأدوات المعرفية وليس في موضوعات المعرفة. والواضح أنه يميز بين البرهان اليقيني والإقناع، ويقصد به التصديق بغير برهان. كما أن الفارابي يعتبر الدين معرفة، لكنها معرفة معتمدة في فهم المعنى على الرمز والإستعارة، وتصديقهما (بالإقناع من دون برهان يقيني، وهو الإيمان عند الفارابي). ↗
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. ↗
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW! ↗
