#truth

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. ↗

— Sam Harris

#philosophy #religion #truth #religion

There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?" "I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like this: 'If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything. ↗

— Vladimir Bartol

#emptiness #faith #inspirational #life #religion

Kitu cha kwanza kufanya kama umeamua kuficha ukweli wape watu ukweli mwingine kulinda thamani ya utu wako. ↗

— Enock Maregesi

#truth #untruth #respect

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. ↗

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

#perspective #reality #truth #respect

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#truth #romantic

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#humility #science #skepticism #truth #science

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ↗

— Anonymous

#creation #god #science #scripture #truth

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#close #evolution #guesses #heart #mind

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out! ↗

— Bob Dylan

#technology

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#lying #self-deception #truth #time