#ink

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS? ↗

— Tim Minchin

#music #religion #skepticism #song-lyrics #spirituality

Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! ↗

— Pink Floyd

#music #pink-floyd #music

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#freethinking #religion #science #religion

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content. ↗

— Alan Sokal

#critical-thinking #science #skepticism #science

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. ↗

— James Gleick

#nature

philosophes qui ont pu autrefois se soustraire de l'empire de la fortune, et, malgré les douleurs et la pauvreté, disputer de la félicité avec leurs dieux. Car s'occupant sans cesse à considérer les bornes qui leur étaient prescrites par la nature, ils se persuadaient si parfaitement que rien n'était en leur pouvoir que leurs pensées, que cela seul était suffisant pour les empêcher d'avoir aucune affection pour d'autres choses; et ils disposaient d'elles si absolument qu'ils avaient en cela quelque raison de s'estimer plus riches, et plus puissants, et plus libres, et plus heureux qu'aucun des autres hommes, qui, n'ayant point cette philosophie, tant favorisés de la nature et de la fortune qu'ils puissent être, ne disposent jamais ainsi de tout ce qu'ils veulent. (partie 3, para 4) ↗

— René Descartes

#reason #thinking #wealth #wisdom #nature

There is more truth about Human Nature in a good Sci-Fi or Epic Fantasy Novel than in any Non-Fiction. When you're speaking for real, you hide what you don't want others to see. When you're telling a story, you don't hold back. ↗

— I Curmudgeon Hugh

#truth #writing #nature

Wenn jemand eine Weide schöner findet als eine Buche, ein Schwein hässlicher als eine Kuh, einen Geier bösartiger als ein Eichhörnchen, dann hat das mit uns Menschen zu tun, mit der Geschichte des Blicks, mit den Büchern, Gemälden, Filmen, mit den Worten und den Bildern, mit den Behauptungen, die der Mensch über die Natur aufgestellt hat, und damit, wie er die Natur abgebildet hat, früher und heute. ↗

— Connie Palmen

#schönheit #nature

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#extremism #opinion #opinions #passion #rationalism

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything -- in other words, utter savages. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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