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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

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Christopher Henry Dawson

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the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#mysticism #religion #symbol #religion

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse. ↗

— Norman G. Finkelstein

#christopher-hitchens #conversion #politics #rationality #reason

No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are. ↗

— Nick Cohen

#islamism #islamophobia #murder #politics #religion

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason? ↗

— Qur'an

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Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

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In a secular world, which is what most of us in Europe and North America live in, history takes on the role of showing us good and evil, virtues and vices. Religion no longer plays as important a part as it once did in setting moral standards and transmitting values. . . .History with a capital H is being called in to fill the void. It restores a sense not necessarily of a divine being but of something above and beyond human beings. It is our authority: it can vindicate us and judge us, and damn those who oppose us. ↗

— Margaret MacMillan

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