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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things. ↗
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We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. ↗
I've learned much from the land of many gods and many ways to worship. From Buddhism the power to begin to manage my mind, from Jainism the desire to make peace in all aspects of life, while Islam has taught me to desire goodness and to let go of that which cannot be controlled. I thank Judaism for teaching me the power of transcendence in rituals and the Sufis for affirming my ability to find answers within and reconnecting me with the power of music. Here's to the Parsis for teaching me that nature must be touched lightly, and the Sikhs for the importance of spiritual strength....And most of all, I thank Hinduism for showing me that there are millions of paths to the divine. ↗
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). ↗
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! ↗
