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As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. ↗

— Epictetus

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And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the wise'. The reason for this is that it is not readily comprehended by one who holds a different view and has different learnings and inclinations, different involvements and instruction. It is clear from this statement that the conception of nibbāna in beyond logical reasoning, not because it is an Ultimate Reality transcending logic, but because logic or reason, being the 'slave of passions', makes it difficult for one who has a passion for an alien tradition to understand the conception of nibbāna. ↗

— David J. Kalupahana

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The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent. ↗

— Stifyn Emrys

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The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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لعل أخطر ما يجابه أي تجربة في التحول الديمقراطي هو التعامل مع الأفكار بصرف النظر عن نوعها ومصدرها- كمطلق ينبغي تكراره; وأعني من حيث ما تنطوي عليه الإطلاقية, عموماً, من الإهدار الكامل للفكرة الإنسانية. وإذا كانت الفكرة الدينية هي الأكثر إغراء بالتعامل معها كمطلق, فإن تحليلاً لظاهرة الدين والوحي, علي العموم, ينتهي إلي وجوب الوعي بدخول العنصر البشري, علي نحو حاسم, في التركيب المنطقي واللغوي والتاريخي لتلك الظاهرة; وعلي النحو الذي يستحيل معه استيعابها خارج تحديدات الشرط الإنساني أبداً ↗

— علي مبروك

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Any ideology that places more emphasis on winning converts than on sound philosophy is sadly misguided. By this reasoning, all of our political parties and most of our religions are sadly misguided. ↗

— Michel Templet

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Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are of a certain nature; he who is not, not. ↗

— Plato

#philosophy #truth #nature

‎'I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns, — a sort of fucus or lichen in bone, — to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this! ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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The spruce and cedar on its shores, hung with gray lichens, looked at a distance like the ghosts of trees. Ducks were sailing here and there on its surface, and a solitary loon, like a more living wave, — a vital spot on the lake's surface, — laughed and frolicked, and showed its straight leg, for our amusement. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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