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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world. ↗

— David Hume

#discourse #empiricism #infinity #logic #religion

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar. ↗

— Jane Rogers

#logical-thinking #religion #truth #religion

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#psychology #religion #religion

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it. ↗

— John Stott

#religion #theology #religion

When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness. ↗

— Zach Weiner

#theology #religion

All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion. ↗

— Ash Vaz

#god #religion #science #space-and-cosmos #religion

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#politics #presidents #psychology #religion #religion

أسمع من المحيط إلى الخليج أن من لا يقدر على إفهامنا لم تحل معادلات الدرجة الثانية بالطريقة التي تحل بها يخرف حول ابستمولوجية السقوط الحر ونسبية اينشتاين خلطا بين التعليقات الإيديولوجية والنفسية على مايزعم جاريا في وعي العلماء وتصوراتهم وبين فهم آليات الإبداع العلمي وقوانينه ↗

— أبو يعرب المرزوقي

#hermeneutics #intellectual #literature #mind #philosophy

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient. ↗

— William James

#proof #religion #science #spirituality #theory

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology. ↗

— Christopher Henry Dawson

#history #sociology #religion